Album: Born Slippy (1995)

Charted: 2

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• Drive boy dog boy
  Dirty numb angel boy
  In the doorway boy
  She was a-lipstick boy
  She was a-beautiful boy
  And tears boy
  And all in your inner space boy
  You had hands girls boy
  And steel boy
  You had chemicals boy
  I've grown so close to you boy
  And you just groan boy
  She said come over come over
  She smiled at you boy
  
  Drive boy dog boy
  Dirty numb angel boy
  In the doorway boy
  She was a-lipstick boy
  She was a-beautiful boy
  And tears boy
  And all in your inner space boy
  You had hands girls boy
  And steel boy
  You had chemicals boy
  I've grown so close to you boy
  And you just groan boy
  She said come over come over
  She smiled at you boy
  
  Let your feelings slip boy
  But never your mask boy
  Random blond boy
  High density random
  Blond boy
  Blond country
  Blond high density
  You are my drug boy
  You're real boy
  Dog dirty dumb cracking boy
  You're getting wet boy
  Big big time boy
  Acid bears boy
  Babes and babes
  And babes and babes
  And babes
  And remembering nothing boy
  Do you like my tin horn boy
  It gets wet like at Angel
  Derailed
  
  You got a velvet mouth
  You're so succulent and beautiful
  Shimmering and dirty
  Wonderful and hot time
  On your telephone line
  And God and everything
  On your telephone
  And in walks an angel
  
  Look at me mum
  Squatting pissed in the tube hole
  At Tottenham Court Road
  I just come out of the Ship
  Talking to the most blond
  I ever met
  Shouting lager lager lager lager
  Shouting lager lager lager lager
  Shouting lager lager lager lager
  Shouting lager lager lager
  Shouting mega mega
  White thing
  Mega mega white thing
  Mega mega white thing
  Mega mega
  Shouting lager lager lager lager
  Mega mega white thing
  Mega mega white thing
  So many things to see and do
  In the tube hole
  The blond going back
  To Romford
  Mega mega mega going back
  To Romford
  Hi mum are you having fun
  On your way
  To a new age tension headache Writer/s: Darren Paul Emerson, Karl Hyde, Richard David Smith
  Publisher: Mute Song Limited, Peermusic Publishing
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 12

• Ian from HereFFS it's a love song.
• Tee from New Orleans, LaThe song was exactly how I visualized it, probably because I used to be a drunk. These guys are amazing!
• Liam from UkI've always thought it was him recounting some racist insults being traded, back and forth outside a nightclub or whatever. But cleaned up to something phonetically similar for song lyrics.
• Vector from SwitzerlandI just want to know how that smile was, how did she look, and smiling!
  There's no bigger beauty than seeing women smiling!
• Andy from Sheffield, United KingdomI find it astounding that anyone could hear a racial slur in this tune... although, given the way people interpret this as a 'drug' celebration rather than the intended 'cry for help' shows how people hear what they believe. Just hang on to Sam Beckett's comment "no symbols where none intended"
• Dexter from New Orleans, LaOkay. I've just listened to the song with the lyrics scrolling along. There is no racial slur but I can see why somebody might think that. The way mega is sung does sound like the infamous "N" word but rest easy it is not.
• James from Manchester, EnglandActually the original "Born slippy" was an instrumental. The famous version, a B-side to the original, is "born Slipp .NUXX". The lyrics were just meant as a joke. For more info, go to wikipedia.
• Joel from Columbia, ScIs there a racial slur in the song? Someone said there was but I've never heard it.
• Paul from Galway, IrelandThe first 2 notes of the song really make you feel the song. love it. the movie, the song. unreal. undescribley great.
• Dave from Cardiff, WalesIt's use in the hit film "Trainspotting" made "Born Slippy" a Top 10 success in the UK early 1996, when it crossed over to hit No.2 having failed to chart on original release a year earlier, although prior to this, around the club scene Underworld (who originally formed in 1989, and whose original members included Karl Hyde, Darren Emerson and Rick Smith) were better known as a more experimental techno/House act, who had garnered a devoted cult following with 1991's 10-minute techno opus "Rez", early club hits "Spikee/Dogman Go Woof", "Confusion The Waitress", "Dark and Long", and their critically acclaimed early albums "Dub No Bass On My Head, Man!" (1993) and the terrific "Second Toughest In The Infants" (1995). In the autumn of 1996, they reactivated another previously failed single, "Pearl's Girl", which also hit the UK Top 20. Since 1997, however, they have failed to repeat the commercial success of these two singles, despite another acclaimed album in 1999, though the band have continued to record to this day (with Karl Hyde having now conquered his problems with alcoholism), albeit minus Darren Emerson, who is now a world-renowned DJ in his own right since leaving Underworld in 1997.
• Jessica from Saint Louis, MoUnderworld lyrics tend to be streams of consciousness or things Hyde has overhead in public.
• Marlow from Perth, Australiafrom the movie 'trainspotting'

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