Sep. 15, 19861 viewer31.6K views
Wild Wild Life Lyrics
[Verse 1]
I'm wearing fur pajamas
I ride a hot potato
It's tickling my fancy
Speak up, I can't hear you
[Chorus]
Here on this mountain top, oh-oh-oh
I got some wild, wild life
I got some news to tell, oh-oh
About some wild, wild life
Here come the doctor in charge, oh-oh-oh
She's got some wild, wild life
Ain't that the way you like it, oh-oh?
Living wild, wild life
[Verse 2]
I wrestle with your conscience
You wrestle with your partner
Sitting on a window sill
But he spends his time behind closed doors
[Chorus]
So check out Mister Businessman, oh-oh-oh
He bought some wild, wild life
On the way to the stock exchange, oh-oh-oh
He got some wild, wild life
Break it up when he opens the door, oh-oh-oh
He doing wild, wild life
I know it's the way you like it, oh-oh
Living wild, wild
I'm wearing fur pajamas
I ride a hot potato
It's tickling my fancy
Speak up, I can't hear you
[Chorus]
Here on this mountain top, oh-oh-oh
I got some wild, wild life
I got some news to tell, oh-oh
About some wild, wild life
Here come the doctor in charge, oh-oh-oh
She's got some wild, wild life
Ain't that the way you like it, oh-oh?
Living wild, wild life
[Verse 2]
I wrestle with your conscience
You wrestle with your partner
Sitting on a window sill
But he spends his time behind closed doors
[Chorus]
So check out Mister Businessman, oh-oh-oh
He bought some wild, wild life
On the way to the stock exchange, oh-oh-oh
He got some wild, wild life
Break it up when he opens the door, oh-oh-oh
He doing wild, wild life
I know it's the way you like it, oh-oh
Living wild, wild
[Bridge]
Peace of mind?
It's a piece of cake
Thought control
You get on board any time you like
[Verse 3]
Like sitting on pins and needles
Things fall apart, it's scientific
[Chorus]
Sleeping on the Interstate, oh-oh-oh
Getting wild, wild life
Checking in and checking out, oh-oh-oh
I got 'em, wild, wild life
Spending all of my money and time, oh-oh-oh
On too much wild, wild life
We wanna go, and we go where we go, oh-oh-oh
Ah, doing wild, wild life
I know it, that's how we start, oh-oh-oh
Got some wild, wild life
Take a picture here in the daylight, oh-oh
And it's a wild, wild life
You've grown so tall, you've grown so fast, oh-oh-oh
Wild, wild
And I know that's the way you like it, oh-oh
Living wild, wild, wild, wild life
Peace of mind?
It's a piece of cake
Thought control
You get on board any time you like
[Verse 3]
Like sitting on pins and needles
Things fall apart, it's scientific
[Chorus]
Sleeping on the Interstate, oh-oh-oh
Getting wild, wild life
Checking in and checking out, oh-oh-oh
I got 'em, wild, wild life
Spending all of my money and time, oh-oh-oh
On too much wild, wild life
We wanna go, and we go where we go, oh-oh-oh
Ah, doing wild, wild life
I know it, that's how we start, oh-oh-oh
Got some wild, wild life
Take a picture here in the daylight, oh-oh
And it's a wild, wild life
You've grown so tall, you've grown so fast, oh-oh-oh
Wild, wild
And I know that's the way you like it, oh-oh
Living wild, wild, wild, wild life
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Genius Annotation
This song describes simple American life with wild-eyed childlike amazement. It pokes fun at people’s sense of self-importance, but unusually it does so with great emotion instead of Byrne’s typical detached alien personality. Because of this, its message is not one of mockery but of profound admiration of our ability to love modern life when it is so far removed from man’s natural state. This is one of the greater underlying themes of the film True Stories, in which this song appears.
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- 9.Warning Sign
- 10.Artists Only
- 12.No Compassion
- 13.Stay Hungry
- 14.I’m Not in Love
- 15.The Book I Read
- 17.Found a Job
- 20.The Big Country
- 21.Heaven
- 22.I Zimbra
- 25.Air
- 30.Listening Wind
- 31.Houses in Motion
- 36.Slippery People
- 37.Swamp
- 39.And She Was
- 40.Stay Up Late
- 43.Road to Nowhere
- 44.Wild Wild Life
- 45.Love for Sale
- 46.People Like Us
- 48.City of Dreams
- 49.Blind
- 50.Mr. Jones
- 53.In Asking Land
- 54.Sax and Violins
Credits
Producer
Writer
Keyboards
Guitar
Vocals
Background Vocals
Bass
Drums
Recorded At
Sigma Sound Studios, Theater District, Manhattan, New York City, New York; O'Henry Sound Studios, Burbank, California; Studio Southwest, Sunnyvale, Texas; The Arcadia Theater, Dallas, Texas
Released on
September 15, 1986
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