Bodies

Track 2 on Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols

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The second song on The Sex Pistols' landmark album Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols, “Bodies” describes abortion in grisly detail, focusing on one of the… Read More

Oct. 27, 19771 viewer115.2K views

Bodies Lyrics

[Verse 1]
She was a girl from Birmingham
She just had an abortion
She was a case of insanity
Her name was Pauline, she lived in a tree
She was a no-one who killed her baby
She sent her letters from the country
She was an animal
She was a bloody disgrace

[Chorus]
Body, I'm not an animal
Body, I'm not an animal

[Verse 2]
Dragged on a table in a factory
Illegitimate place to be
In a packet in a lavatory
Die, little baby, screaming
Body, screaming fucking bloody mess
Not an animal
It's an abortion

[Chorus]
Body, I'm not an animal
Mummy, I'm not an abortion

[Bridge]
Throbbing squirm
Gurgling bloody mess
I'm not a discharge
I'm not a loss in protein
I'm not a throbbing squirm, ugh

[Verse 3]
Fuck this and fuck that
Fuck it all and fuck her fucking brat
She don't want a baby that looks like that
I don't want a baby that looks like that
Body, I'm not no animal
Body, an abortion

[Chorus]
Body, I'm not an animal
Body, I'm not an animal
An animal
I'm not an animal
I'm not an animal, an animal, I'm not an animal, I ain't no animal
I'm not a body
I'm not an animal, an animal... animal
I'm not an animal
Mummy

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The second song on The Sex Pistols' landmark album Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols, “Bodies” describes abortion in grisly detail, focusing on one of the crazy people frontman John Lydon got to know. Lydon has always been adamant that the song is neither pro choice nor pro life. In an interview with Spin Magazine, Lydon says:

I don’t think there’s a clearer song about the pain of abortion. The juxtaposition of all those different psychic things in your head and all the confusion, the anger, the frustration, you have to capture in those words."