NOTHING LIKE BROADWAY: DAVID RACKOFF LYRICS & MUSIC
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BodyHair

The context: This is from the feature film I Am Bad. The main character is a socially awkward guy. Late in the movie, he experiments with cocaine, and has a wild, sexy evening with a party girl. So this is the song from the soundtrack that plays over that scene. But... the guy is a serial killer, the girl is a vice-principal, and the location is a port-o-potty at an elementary school fair. So the song had to be weird and "off".

A little about the creation of the song: I got to work with electronic songwriters Emily & Ant, which was a totally different way of working. I started with a lyric, but then they would set it to a hook or a beat, and I would write some more, and they would write some more. It was fun and different for me. I liked that my job was really just to expand the central metaphor with goofy rhymes and gross images that were approaching sexy, but miss the mark.
BodyHair (from the film I Am Bad)
Lyrics by David Rackoff, Music by Emily & Ant

​I LIKE YOUR BIG ROUGH HANDS,
AND YOUR FURRY TOES.
I LIKE YOUR STUBBLE ON MY BACK, 
YOUR CURLIES ON MY NOSE.
I LIKE YOUR BODY HAIR.
I LIKE YOUR BODY HAIR.

I'VE BEEN A NAUGHTY GIRL,
BUT I WANT TO ATONE.
YOU ARE LIKE A KING, 
I'LL GET YOU ON YOUR THRONE.
I LIKE YOUR BODY HAIR.
I LIKE YOUR BODY HAIR.

I'M AS SURE AS DEATH AND TAXES
THAT I HATE BRAZILIAN WAXES.
I WANNA SMELL YOU NOW, BOY.
YOU'RE AS MANLY AS A COWBOY.

THE TASE UPON MY TONGUE'LL
MAKE ME THINK I'M IN A JUNGLE.
YOU SMELL SPUNKY SEXY YEASTY.
YOU'RE MY FUNKY SEXY BEASTY.

I'D LIKE TO MAKE A SWEATER
OUT OF YOU I COULD WEAR.
OR GO SWIMMING IN A POOL
​OF YOUR DELICIOUS BODY HAIR.
I LIKE YOUR BODY HAIR.
I LIKE YOUR BODY HAIR.

  • Home
  • Nothing Like Broadway! (the musical)
  • Songs from Nothing Like Broadway!
  • Other Songs
    • This Is Our Land (from Genius Grant)
    • A Hundred Years from Now
    • This Is the Start of Something...
    • Nothing Like Broadway
    • The World's Most Famous Spy
    • If I Could Sing My Feelings (End of Act I)
    • In Another Universe
    • The Gods of the Theater
    • The Squeedle Song
    • You Only Love Me for My...
    • I'm in Love with a Pianist
    • What If There Were No More Villains?
    • The Racing Horse Winner
    • Swan Song
    • Sing Along
    • Surprisingly Similar Way to Me
    • A Day at the Fair
    • An Underwhelming Life
    • You Can't Have Too Much Christmas/I Can't Breathe (The Rocking Horse Winner Opening)
    • A Dream for Paul
    • BodyHair
    • Yell to the Heavens
  • Lyrics Can Have...
    • Wordplay
    • Euphony
    • Perfect Scansion
    • Story-telling
    • Rhymes
    • Musicality
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