your body is a wonderland

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Courtesy of Rob Sheffield:
Your body is a wonderland, my brain is a strip mall, my guitar is a
dumpster behind Shoney's on a hot day, my voice is a Komfort Kastle on the wrong side of the crucial Walter Egan/Randy Vanwarmer divide, and my baloney has a second name: John Mayer

end of discussion.

Carey (Carey), Thursday, 13 February 2003 20:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

I wonder if he's related to Oscar...

Prude, Thursday, 13 February 2003 21:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Who's Oscar?

Blech, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 01:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oscar Mayer, the bologna guy.

Prude, Tuesday, 18 February 2003 01:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

two weeks pass...
i love this song. absolutely. it captures the moment perfectly.

Bosse-De-Nage (Bosse-De-Nage), Saturday, 8 March 2003 09:01 (twenty-one years ago) link

dammit, my body is a wonderland

Bruce Urquhart (Bruce Urquhart), Saturday, 8 March 2003 09:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

eight months pass...
this song still sucks, BTW

Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 17 November 2003 04:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

So much about John Mayer smacks of him wanting a reward for the sentiments he expresses in his songs.

Schwingung (Damian), Monday, 17 November 2003 08:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

People who like this are the same people who in the hip hop world really really liked "21 Questions."

its a song for the ladies, with all sexism inherent in that statement.

ddrake, Monday, 17 November 2003 08:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

People who like this are the same people who in the hip hop world really really liked "21 Questions."

Fuck off

Dave M. (rotten03), Monday, 17 November 2003 08:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

And people accused ME of not having a sense of humor?

ddrake, Monday, 17 November 2003 09:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

to john mayor- your song is a giant turd!

Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 17 November 2003 09:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

This song is repulsive and smug and fucking trite. It makes me feel ill.

Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Monday, 17 November 2003 09:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

We got the afternoon
You got this room for two
One thing I've left to do
Discover me
Discovering you

One mile to every inch of
Your skin like porcelain
One pair of candy lips and
Your bubblegum tongue

And if you want love
We'll make it
Swimming a deep sea
Of blankets
Take all your big plans
And break 'em
This is bound to be a while

Your body Is a wonderland
Your body is a wonder (I'll use my hands)
Your body Is a wonderland

Something 'bout the way your hair falls in your face
I love the shape you take when crawling towards the pillowcase
You tell me where to go and
Though I might leave to find it
I'll never let your head hit the bed
Without my hand behind it

you want love?
We'll make it
Swimming a deep sea
Of blankets
Take all your big plans
And break 'em
This is bound to be a while

Your body Is a wonderland
Your body is a wonder (I'll use my hands)
Your body Is a wonderland

Damn baby
You frustrate me
I know you're mine all mine all mine
But you look so good it hurts sometimes

Your body Is a wonderland
Your body is a wonder (I'll use my hands)
Your body Is a wonderland
Your body is a wonderland


That is the funniest lyric ever. I haven't heard the track as I guess it hasn't crossed over to the UK. But that is a real giggle especially if it's serious.

btw, does that mean his hand betwen her head and the headboard? Ahh that's nice...

mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 17 November 2003 09:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

And she booked the room too? That's love....

mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 17 November 2003 09:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think this is a protest song about the absence, outside Japan, of love hotels. Being forced to rent a hotel all night for a sexual encounter lasting two hours is just a rip off. What's more, in a love hotel the whole room would be a wonderland, a mini theme park. Love hotels everywhere, now!

Momus (Momus), Monday, 17 November 2003 13:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

Count me in with the folks who find it cute in a gawky sort of way.

And I'm curious about the need of many on this thread to police the desires of girls and young women.

Keith Harris (kharris1128), Monday, 17 November 2003 16:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

momus we totally have hotels that rent rooms by the hour in the us

cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Take all your big plans
And break 'em
This is bound to be a while

Because once you get a good look at my giant head and teeth, your going to cringe.

Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

I just don't like mawkish and overt declarations of affection. I'm a sour old hag who's probably bitter I don't have my own Mayer to describe my body as a theme park ride. Yeah, that's the ticket...

Ick. And the sound of his voice actually singing it, makes it creepier. He sounds like a muppet.

Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

But Dan what W.W. Joeie Do if you sang "your BOOTY is a wonderland?"

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

She would probably eviscerate me. Or she'd roll her eyes and ignore me. It's kind of a toss-up.

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:33 (twenty-one years ago) link

I like those odds!! Oh you said "eviscerate."

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 17 November 2003 17:34 (twenty-one years ago) link

momus we totally have hotels that rent rooms by the hour in the us

Damn, you mean I was totally wasting my money when I used to take girls to the Chelsea at $200 a pop?

But do your 'rest' hotels have automated desk clerks, jacuzzis, karaoke machines, vibromassage, and rotating teacup seats?

Momus (Momus), Monday, 17 November 2003 18:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Damn baby
You frustrate me
I know you're mine all mine all mine
But you look so good it hurts sometimes

I never noticed this line before. He says "Damn baby"!

Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 17 November 2003 18:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

"But do your 'rest' hotels have automated desk clerks, jacuzzis, karaoke machines, vibromassage, and rotating teacup seats?"

No but some of the classier ones have carpets and electrical lights.

Keith Harris (kharris1128), Monday, 17 November 2003 18:26 (twenty-one years ago) link

This song just makes me uncomfortable. Doesn't it creep anyone else out?

Elyn (elynbeth), Monday, 17 November 2003 18:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yes, it creeps me out, too. It's like women never fart or have stray hairs or boogers hanging out of their nose or something.

Kerry (dymaxia), Monday, 17 November 2003 23:09 (twenty-one years ago) link

His Xmas CD will include "Your Body Is a Winter Wonderland" of course.
-- Amateurist (amateuris...) (webmail), February 12th, 2003 10:09 PM. (amateurist) (link)


this still cracks me up which goes a long way toward explaining my place in the world

amateur!st (amateurist), Monday, 17 November 2003 23:11 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm sorry, I've got to hear this. Kazaa, i'm comin ......

mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 09:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

You could probably just guess how it goes, tho

Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 10:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

five years pass...

your body is a wonderland

Smells like meat. Rotten meat. (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 15:02 (fifteen years ago) link

why?

"lol" as frivolity (Stevie D), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 15:13 (fifteen years ago) link

The answer is in Eisbaer's handle.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 5 August 2009 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link

Why would he bring it here? of all places?

"lol" as frivolity (Stevie D), Wednesday, 5 August 2009 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link

because kids are stupid motherfuckers

Smells like meat. Rotten meat. (Eisbaer), Thursday, 6 August 2009 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link


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