Album: Flesh And Blood (1990)

Charted: 15 3

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• What's got you so jumpy?
  Why can't you sit still, yeah?
  Like gasoline you want to pump me
  And leave me when you get your fill, yeah
  Every time I touch you honey you get hot
  I want to make love you never stop
  Come up for air you push me to the floor
  What's been going on in that head of yours
  
  Unskinny bop
  Just blows me away
  Unskinny bop, bop
  All night and day
  Unskinny bop, bop, bop, bop
  She just loves to play
  Unskinny bop nothin' more to say
  
  You look at me so funny
  Love bite got you acting oh so strange
  You got too many bees in your honey
  Am I just another word in your page, yeah, yeah
  Every time I touch you you get hot
  I want to make love you never stop
  Come up for air you push me to the floor
  What's been going on in that head of yours
  
  Unskinny bop
  Just blows me away
  Unskinny bop, bop
  All night and day
  Unskinny bop, bop, bop, bop
  She just loves to play
  Unskinny bop nothin' more to say
  
  You're sayin' my love won't do ya
  That ain't love written on your face
  Well honey I can see right through ya
  Yeah whose ridin' who at the end of the race
  
  What's right
  What's wrong
  What's left
  What the hell is going on
  
  Unskinny bop
  Just blows me away
  Unskinny bop, bop
  All night and day
  Unskinny bop, bop, bop, bop
  She just loves to play
  (Up for air, pulled to the floor)
  
  Unskinny bop
  No good, no good
  Unskinny bop, bop
  All night n' day, do it
  Unskinny bop, bop, bop, bop
  No good, no good, good, no good
  Unskinny bop (oh ooh)
  Unskinny bop Writer/s: Bobby Dall, Bret Michaels, Bruce Anthony Johannesson, Rikki Rockett
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 19

• Cristian Duarte from ColombiaUnskinny bop is a eay to mention the clitoris, that is.
• 20mdc22 from IowaMy mother and I drew the conclusion of this song not having any logical or rational meaning behind way back in the early 90s.
• Lisa from L.a.Next question... why was the Bret Michael's Rock of Love tour bus parked at the dead end of my street around 2007. All the ten year Olds were going to see it and found it fascinating.
  
  I thought unskinnybop was a bop between too skinny people yet that was very full.
• Jeanne Mcgrath from JohnsrownUnskinny bop? Silly name for a song. Yins shoulda called it "Iron City Bop"
• GeneIt means nothing. As has been noted many times. It’s was place holder of phonetic reference.
• AnonymousI thought it was another way to say “fat f--k”
• Dustin from NashvilleThe song is actually quite coyly written but fairly simple to understand:
  
  "The Skinny" is a slang term meaning "confidential truth". If the title is even remotely related to that term, then "Unskinny" would mean that he's NOT getting "the skinny" or full truth of why she is so hyper-sexual with him, the "bop" part.
  
  Which, if you analyze the lyrics thoroughly, that's is exactly what is going on...
  
  She's using passion and sex to try to blind him (first verse) to the fact that she is not really interested in being with him exclusively (second verse) but he is wise to what she's doing (third verse) and let's her know that she isn't the only one using the other. Hence, leading to the statement: "Yeah whose ridin' who at the end of the race".
• Cathy from Omaha, NeRob, Bret Michaels is an equal opportunity what? Manwhore? Pervert? I'll call him what he is.
• Rob from Duluth, GaI heard on VH1's behind the music that Bret was an "equal opportunity ..." well can't say it here or it'll get deleted, but you get the drift. Fat ones, skinny ones, it didn't matter. So take that for what it's worth.
• Marissa from Akron, OhI always figured Unskinny Bop was about a girl who wasn't skinny... I never really read the lyrics but hey, music is art, and all art is open to interpretation, am I right?
• Thomas from Copenhagen, DenmarkYeah, DeVille not being able to play the right song at the MTV-awards got him fired. Heavy metal/hard rock/glam rock died that night and the sound from Seattle took over.
• Michelle from Maplewood, MnThis would have to be my favorite poison song ever i love any type of hair metal and this and some of my other favorite songs rank #1 of my favorite hair metal songs
• Tyler from Folsom, CaPoison never 'broke up' CC Deville was fired due to his alcohol and cocaine problem after he couldnt play the right song at an MTV awards show and return to the band 7 years later. He was replace by 3 different people over those seven years.
• Bill from Minneapolis, MnThis song is about C.C. with 2 porn stars in a room with Bret Michaels watching C.C. and the 2 chicks doing the unskinny bop. Bret wrote a song about it. Go watch the video for it.
• Mandie from Port Royal, Pathis song gives the real meaning to woman's curves and it doesnt have to make um fat cuz it drives the guys wild
• Jeri from Edmonton, CanadaThis is an amazing song! It's so nasty... like most hair metal. I love it
• Shadow from El Paso, TxThe information in the second block above is not accurate. Poison did not break up in 1994 and reform in 1999. To the contrary, Poison recorded an album in 1996 (two years after the above says they broke up) called "Crack a Smile" although it was held from release by Capitol Records until 2000. Two of the songs from Crack a Smile- "Lay Your Body Down" and "Sexual Thing" were released on Poison?s Greatest Hits CD in 1996, which Capitol released instead of the new album.
• Amy from Dallas, Txgood song. thats it
• Anthony from Morgantown, WvAccording to the booklet in the album, C.C. Brought in a famous Porn Star. C.C. started making licks with her in the room and Bret started singing his lyrics to impress her. Both of them didnt impress her... but it did become a major Poison song!

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