Steve Poltz - Forbidden Fruit lyrics

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She hopped in my car faster than bar time

"Honey, would you like a date," she said

It wasn't even an original line

And my pants they tightened

And my face grew taut

And in my mind my mother said, "You'd better not"

Then again she always told me

That I wouldn't like the taste of beer

Hmm-mmm

And she slid real close to me

She said I need not fear

I looked like I was caught in headlights

With the eyes of a lonely deer

Forbidden fruit

I'll scale your thorny vine

To reach the top

I'll scrape and twist my spine

Forbidden fruit

Man, what a joyous meal

It tastes so sweet

I'll even eat the peel

If they told me that I shouldn't

Then I would

Man, bad must mean good

Bad, bad, good

She thrust a tape in my cassette deck

She seemed a little eager

I said, "This sounds just like a T.V. ad"

She said it was Bob Seger

And the smoke danced loops from a cigarette

And her fingernails were silver like a shiny jet

And her lipstick stained the filter as she twirled it

Like a pink roulette wheel

Hmm-mmm

And would you like a gamble

She said, "Let's go back to my flat

For a extra fifty dollars

I'll make you purr like an atomic cat"

Forbidden fruit

I'll scale your thorny vine

To reach the top

I'll scrape and twist my spine

Forbidden fruit

Man, what a joyous meal

It tastes so sweet

I'll even eat the peel

If they told me that I shouldn't

Then I would

Man, bad must mean good

Bad, bad, good

We sat on her floor

Connected like a human train

I talked on and on about my life

Her interest she just feigned

As she layed me down on a single bed

And the roof dripped rain all around