After yesterday's Arctic Monkeys after sun-down, sleazy sex-industry number, we cross the Atlantic again to go down and dirty with with the band from San Diego from their 2005 album The Best Little Secrets Are Kept. Louis XIV, the French monarch was also known as the hedonistic Sun King of course, which provides another link, but here let's concentrate on the fantastically catchy glam-rock groove and delivery of frontman, multi-instrumentalist and producer Jason Hill. The lyrics are unashamedly lustful for women of various ethnicities and looks, and have been perceived in some quarters and distasteful, even leading to a ban of the band in Hoover, Alabama. But surely this is also very tongue-in-cheek, part of a classic album of rock indie, brimming with confidence and brio.
Hill has since gone on to write film music for director David Fincher, and has worked with other artists including David Bowie, the New York Dolls and The Killers.
Ah chocolate girl, well you're looking like something I want
(finding out true love is blind)
Ah and your little Asian friend, well she can come if she wants
(finding out true love is blind)
I want all the self conscious girls who try to hide who they are with makeup
(finding out true love is blind)
You know it’s the girl with a frown with the tight pants I really want to shake up
(finding out true love is blind)
Hey, carrot juice, I wanna squeeze you away until you bleed
(finding out true love is blind)
And your vanilla friend, well she looks like something I need
(finding out true love is blind)
I want miss little smart girl with your glasses and all your books
(finding out true love is blind)
And I want the stupid girl who gives me all those dirty looks
(finding out true love is blind)
Wind you up and make you crawl to me
Tie you up until you call to me
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Ah brown girl with those with the hot pants shaking that thing on the street
(finding out true love is blind)
Yeah and the short girls with the way they crawl knocks me off my feet
(finding out true love is blind)
And all the tough girls who never want me to see them cry
(finding out true love is blind)
And the girls who straight treat me like a dog until the day I die
(finding out true love is blind)
Ah chocolate girl, well you're looking like something I want
Ah and your little Asian friend well, well she can come if she wants
I want all the self conscious girls who try to hide who they are with makeup
You know it’s the girl with a frown with the tight pants I really want to shake up
Hey, carrot juice, I wanna squeeze you away until you bleed
(finding out true love is blind)
And your vanilla friend, well she looks like something I need
(finding out true love is blind)
I want miss little smart girl with your glasses and all your books
(finding out true love is blind)
And I want the stupid girl who gives me all those dirty looks
(finding out true love is blind)
Wind me up and make me crawl to you
Tie me up and make me call to you
Wind you up and make you crawl to me
Tie you up until you call to me.
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