My head is a box full of nothing
And that's the way I like it
My garden's a secret compartment
And that's the way I like it
And that's the way I like it
Your body's a dream that turns violent
And that's the way I like it
And that's the way I like it
The winter is long in the city
And that's the way I like it

So please
Baby please
Open your heart
Catch my disease

I was backstage in Pomona
And that's the way I like it
She drank beer with coca-cola
And that's the way I like it
And that's the way I like it
She told me about the winds from Santa Anna
And that's the way I like it
And that's the way I like it
She told me she loved me like fireworks
And that's the way I like it

So please
Baby please
Open your eyes
Catch my disease

So please (PLEASE!)
Baby please
Come on
Catch my disease
Catch it

They play good Charlotte on the radio
And that's the way I like it
They play sleepy Jackson on the radio
And that's the way I like it
And that's the way I like it
I hear Beyonce on the radio
And that's the way I like it
And that's the way I like it
They don't play me on the radio
But that's the way I like it

So please
Baby please
Open your heart
And catch my disease
So please
Baby please
Come on
Catch my disease
(catch my disease)
(catch my disease)
(catch my disease)
(catch my disease)



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Track duration: 04:14

"Catch My Disease" as written by Mcgowan Southworth Benjamin Lee

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    General Comment:This song has such an upbeat feel to it. I really feel like it's just Ben and his mic going for it!

    yournewfavsong.blogspot.com/2012/02/…">Ben Lee - "Catch My Disease"
    Flag the270bloggeron February 04, 2012   Link
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    General Comment:This song is about Acquired Immunodeficiency Virus...AIDs to the layman. He likes music still though and wants someone to suffer with HIV like he does, but still enjoy life.
    Flag bdl1411on October 06, 2011   Link
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    General Comment:I'm not going to get all sentimental and over-analyze a fun song. I've been listening to this for YEARS and I do not feel a need to cram it into...let's say...a "box" and be a bum squad. The best part of this ENTIRE SONG is the fact that Good Charlotte is mentioned. It makes me laugh. haha. Good Charlotte. haha.
    Flag burningexampleon December 07, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:Also, 'open your heart' signifies make yourself vulnerable.
    'open your eyes' to see what's in front of her and the great possibilities their affection could hold

    And-
    To those of you who think Ben Lee sucks,
    you suck.
    Flag Take flighton June 06, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:The disease is love. He wants the girl to open her eyes and love him back. Through the second verse, he explains the things which made him fall in love with her. ie: Her drinking 'beer with coca cola' they bonded over discussing where she was from, Santa Ana. By her saying that she loves him 'like fireworks' implies that it was sudden, and perhaps too much. Or maybe it just means short-term.

    I have no idea what all the radio references mean. Probably just that he's happy that he has come so far from not being on the radio to finally hearing his own voice
    Flag Take flighton June 06, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:anyone who thinks this song is about STD's is mentally challenge. The song is just expressing how Ben Lee can't brought down. How he is always happy, and wants everyone else to just be happy. We need more songs like this in the world


    M.C
    Flag mdog2010on April 22, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:"they don't play me on the radio, but that's the way i like it"
    not
    "they play me on the radio and that's the way i like it"
    Flag elianneon October 30, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:my cable has music stations like R&B music or Jazz or Alternative Rock etc.. when i was at my buddys house with Direct TV they had Adult Music, and this song came on next. Adult Music = To this song has to mean STDs... a great song tho
    Flag cmdterps44on February 10, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:I don't care if you don't like Ben Lee; you have no right to insult this song because Jenny Lewis sings backup vocals in it.
    Flag WiresAndWaveson November 01, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:This lyrics got me confused. It starts with a very buddhist sentence: "My head is a box full of nothing and that's the way i like it" but there in the middle it says: "She drank beer with coca-cola
    and that's the way I like it". That's what confused me. It says "she drank" in the past tense. Does it mean he's happy because this anti-buddhist lifestyle is the past now?
    Flag Melody Nelsonon October 18, 2007   Link

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