The Stranglers – Peaches

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Strolling along minding my own business
Well there goes a girl and a half
She's got me going up and down
She's got me going up and down

Walking on the beaches looking at the peaches

Well I got the notion girl that you got some suntan lotion in that bottle of yours
Spread it all over my peelin' skin baby
That feels real good
All this skirt lappin' up the sun
Lap me up
Why don't you come on and
Lap me up

Walking on the beaches looking at the peaches

Well there goes another one just lying down on the sand dunes
I'd better go take a swim and see if I can cool down a little bit
Cause you and me woman
We got a lotta things on our minds (you know what I mean)

Walking on the beaches looking at the peaches

Will you just take a look over there (where?) There
Is she tryin' to get outta that clitares?
Liberation for women
That's what I preach
Preacher man

Walking on the beaches looking at the peaches

Oh shit!
There goes the charabang
Looks like I'm gonna be stuck here the whole summer
Well what a bummer
I can think of a lot worse places to be
Like down in the streets
Or down in the sewer
Or even on the end of a skewer

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Track duration: 04:09

"Peaches" as written by Jean Jacques Burnel, Hugh Alan Cornwell, Brian John Duffy, David Greenfield

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, EMI Music Publishing

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    General Comment:lol, the first time I heard this I thought he was saying b*tches insead of peaches. :P
    has no one else noticed how fishy this song is?
    Flag JaGraceon July 18, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:the "clitares/clitoris" line is a double entedre. maybe "getting out of" it means 'trying to be a good girl' or something. but it is pronounced "clitares" so maybe they were trying to get past the censors with an inside joke.
    Flag gregorybrianon June 14, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:to true dimples... to true. i read in an interview they did!
    Flag meathoofon December 17, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:Well I think this song is about raisins...They used to be fat and juicy and now they're twisted. They had their lives stolen. Well, they taste sweet, but really they're just humiliated grapes.
    Personally, I can't say I am a big supporter of the raisin council...
    Flag dimpleson December 17, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:Hey wyrm. It makes sense to me. He say's "liberation for women, thats what I preach". In otherwords women liberated of ALL their clothes. I guess he'd prefer the beach to be a nude beach. Ha ha.
    Flag skacore_dudeon July 19, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:this is a really great british song
    Flag jabba1110on June 11, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:Secondly, the original 'Radio' version replaced 'clitares' with 'bikini' as they didn't think the general population would understand - and 'bummer' with 'summer' just in case. Though UK radio played both versions.
    Flag Wyrmon May 15, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:Firstly, I really don't think that she's trying to get out of her clitoris... that really doesn't make sense. The word should be clitares which is a french bathing costime (or so we were told at the time the record came out).
    Flag Wyrmon May 15, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:As an American person, I would like to mention something I had to look up: it's spelled "charabanc" but pronounced "charabang," and it's basically a sightseeing/tourist bus, open-air, kind of like a trolley.

    He's basically joking that he'll have to stay at the beach (with the women) all summer because the tour bus has left without him.
    Flag Dubious Meriton March 12, 2006   Link
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    General Comment:here we go then! how the hell can a lyric about a young man walking along a beach and having fantasies about the various women he sees be misogynistic? do you actually know the meaning of the word mysoginist, HazMatador, or is it a phrase you remember from some crappy music mag?
    Flag Boss Manon July 02, 2005   Link

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