Poppies

Album: Radio Ethiopia (1976)
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  • He's delighted to love me, but you know,
    I just don't know what to say to him. I just don't know.

    Heard it on the radio, it's no good
    Heard it on the radio, it's news to me
    When she gets something, it's understood
    Baby's got somethin' she's not used to

    Down, down, poppy, yeah
    Down, down, poppy, yeah

    Goin' on the corner, I'm gonna score
    Baby wants somethin', she's in the mood to
    Baby wants somethin', I want more
    When I don't get it, I get blue, blue

    Down, down, and it's really comin', really comin',
    Down, down, poppy, yeah

    Goin' on the corner, I'm gonna score
    Baby's got somethin', gonna get through, through
    When I want somethin' I want more,
    Heard it on the radio, there's nothin' I can do do

    I'm in the mood to And I'm a woman and an individual And I want rockin' real slow I wanna hear it on the radio I wanna hear it, I wanna score (poppies) I wanna hear it on the radio Baby got it but baby want more
    On the radio, heard it on the radio
    Baby got it but baby want more
    [babble]
    Heard it on the radio Won't be no need for layin' in the road Tonight I'm goin' out, oh yeah Baby got it but baby want more She won't need it any more [babble]
    Although she was tense and lean in the sun Splintered like a country
    Gently pulled his finger
    Everything is soakin' and spread with butter
    Their flowers on an average [on the seed?]

    And then they laid her on the table
    She connected with the inhaler
    And the needle shiftin' like crazy,
    She was, she was completely still.
    It was like a painting of a vase,
    She just lay there and the gas traveled fast
    Through the dorsal spine and down and around
    (I want more)
    The anal cavity, her cranium
    (I wanna score)
    Just, it was really great, man,
    The gas had inflicted her entire spine
    With the elements of a voluptuous disease
    With a green vapor, made her feet light

    Baby want more

    Baby was it in the closet.
    Baby get it there, baby tag it,
    Baby got it and baby begged for it, baby

    I don't think (after station) there's any station
    (I remember when)
    Quite as interesting to me
    (baby worship something)
    As the 12th station
    (laughin' at the flowers)
    I tuned in (to the tower) too many centuries
    Were calling to me
    And I spin, come down through time
    Oh, watch them say you're too high

    And I swim through

    Hear it on the radio, goddamn in my radio,
    Hear it on the radio, hear it on the radio
    [babble]
    One long ecstatic pure sensation
    Restriction started excreting, started excreting, ah exhilarating
    Bottomless pit

    Hey Sheba, hey Salome, hey Venus eclipsin' my way ah.
    Her vessel, every woman is a vessel, is evasive, is aquatic.
    Everyone, silver ecstatic, platinum disk spinning Writer/s: PATTI SMITH, RICHARD A SOHL
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