Sick Again Lyrics
From the window of your rented limousine
I caught your pretty blue eyes
One day soon, you're gonna reach sixteen
Painted lady in the city of lies
[Chorus]
Oh, do you know my name?
Do I look the same?
You know I'm the one you want, babe
I must be the one you need, yeah
[Verse 2]
Clutching pages from your teenage dream
In the lobby of the Hotel Paradise
Through the circus of the L.A. queens
How fast you'll learn the downhill slide
[Chorus]
Oh, how you like my face?
Still don't know your name
You know I'm the one you want, babe, ooh, yes
I must be the one you need, need, need, need, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh, you've got to tell me
[Guitar Solo]
Just a minute, just a minute
[Verse 3]
Lips like cherries on the brow of a queen
Come on, flash across in my eyes
Said you dug me since you were thirteen
Then you giggle as you heave and sigh
[Chorus]
Oh, do you know my name?
Do I look the same?
Baby, I gotta tell you, I'm the one you want
And everybody know I'm the one you need, yeah
[Bridge]
Oh, give it to me
Come on now
Come on now
Come on now
[Verse 4]
Hours, hours, and the moments in between
Oh, baby, how the time flies
The fun of coming, oh, the pain in leaving
Baby, dry those silver eyes
Oh, do you know my name?
Do I look the same?
You know I'm the one you want, ooh, yes
I'm the one you need, yeah
[Outro]
Ooh, that's right
Ooh, yeah, that's right
Ooh, that's right
That's right
That's right
Ooh, yeah, that's right
That's right
Aah, aah, aah, aah, aah
*Cough*
About
“Sick Again” describes an experience with a groupie, which is someone, usually a woman, who tries to have sex with band members, sometimes in search of her own fame.
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Robert Plant told Rolling Stone in 1975:
It’s a shame to see these young chicks bungle their lives away in a flurry and rush to compete with what was in the old days the good-time relationships we had with the GTOs and people like that. When it came to looning, they could give us as much of a looning as we could give them. It’s a shame, really. If you listen to ‘Sick Again,’ a track from Physical Graffiti, the words show I feel a bit sorry for them. ‘Clutching pages from your teenage dream in the lobby of the Hotel Paradise/Through the circus of the L.A. queen how fast you learn the downhill slide.’ One minute she’s 12, and the next minute she’s 13 and over the top. Such a shame. They haven’t got the style that they had in the old days… way back in ‘68.
- 1.Custard Pie
- 2.The Rover
- 6.Kashmir
- 7.In the Light
- 8.Bron-Yr-Aur
- 10.Ten Years Gone
- 11.Night Flight
- 12.The Wanton Song
- 13.Boogie with Stu
- 15.Sick Again
