I've Got the Sex
Lyrics
Crushing strawberries one by one
Watching the juice drip down
Two and a half months ahead of schedule
The leaves on the trees are turning brown
We got ready for winter, as the sun rose up in the sky
There was something almost soothing in the hard-to-define
Note of terror in your eye
Watching the strawberries lose their shapes
As the wind blew through the elm tree
The wind was far too cold for the middle of April
And you reached out your hand to me
It was good to feel your hand in mine
It was good to know you felt the chill too
I scooped up a palm full of strawberry pulp
And smeared it all over you
The wild strawberries drove me on, as I lapped them up off of your skin
And I could feel your basal body temperature rise as the cold came in
Hey hey
Banter
- This is a song about the point at which it all goes to pieces and you're holding on very very tightly because it's the only thing you have, and it's called 'I've Got the Sex.' (1996-03-20)
- This is a song about a moment all of you are gonna come to sooner or later, and I want you to think of me and curse my name when you do. (1997-11-14)
- This is a song. It’s about… uh… it’s about that point in time at which you suddenly realize that either you can cash in your chips or they’re going to be taken away from you. And it doesn’t much matter to the management and so you say to yourself, 'I'm cashing in!' (1999-01-23)
- This is a song; it's about that moment in which you pass from thinking that maybe it's all right to trust somebody that, that you were pretty sure was gonna do wrong by you but, but you think you've gotten past all that, you pass from the moment of thinking maybe you can trust them to knowing that they'll kill you for sure, and, uh, and get excited about that, feel the love in that. (1999-07-23)
- This is a song about hanging on to the good thing that you have in the wake of all the bad things that you're about to get. It was supposed to be the first song on Sweden, but I left the tape at home when I went to sequence, so I had to make the second song the first song. It's called 'I've Got the Sex.' (2006-12-02)
- It's one of my favorite song titles of mine.(2016-12-04)
- It took Mountain Goats fans like seventeen years to catch me out on this song. So, I was pleased about that. It was supposed to be the first song on Sweden but when we went to master it, I had left the tapes home. And, back in those days, you couldn't say, 'Well, I'll schedule another mastering day,' because you could not afford to schedule another master. So, whatever you brought to the session, that was what was going to be on the record. And so I made the second song the first song. The second song was called The Recognition Scene. The first song was to be called I've Got the Sex. (2017-11-10)
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