Backstage Girl - DJ Shadow, Phonte Coleman

She told me I was taking her places she had never been before, but reall

She was taking me places I promised myself I’d never go to

damn…

Let me start at the beginning…

Alright man I want all of you brothers to get rid of…

And show … sweet honey for your mouth

Yeah yeah yeah one two

Some say she was from Cali

Some say the Carolinas

Mom was a belly dancer

Pop was a neverminder

No drugs or alcohol

No weed or marijuana

You’d think that backstage was the last place you’d find her

First time I saw her kinda

reminded me of them chicks you see at Caribana

Friendly and talkative and looking so marvellous…

Dead nicotine filling like … in the city of godesses

But I’m digressin', please pardon if

I start trailing off

Or fading out of my consciousness

It’s just that when I think… oh girl my whole world collapses

I’m so enraptured in all overflow this

She approached me with a smirk to say We can do work no matter what time or day

of the week it is

So thorough that backstage girl she’ll fall to her knees just to prey on my

weaknesses

I mean I told her straight up,

you know I got a significant other…

she ain’t care

She said for tonight I just wanna be your insignificant other

… what?

God damn…

we left the club at around two

Just enough time to meet my niggas for round two

At another spot, DJ playing the sounds to

Hopefully divert me from being a scoundrel

In the spot making my rounds through

The crowd trying to throw her off

but she’s on me like a bloodhound, you

Wouldn’t believe how hard I tried to fight it

Passions and desires were closing in

And that’s what it amounts to

I looked her in the eyes

And said, «I don’t even know your name

It feels wrong even though I don’t show it.»

She said, «I wish I could tell you the same

But I won’t tell you my name cause I want you to

Fuck me like you don’t know it.»

I responded with a smirk to let her know

We could work no matter what time or day of the week it is

So thorough that backstage girl fell down to her knees just to prey on my

weaknesses

But man can you fight it?

Go ahead

You’d think that backstage

Would be the last place you’d find her

You’d think the backstage

Would be the last place you’d find her

Been riding all around the world, seen so many faces

But I’m always looking for love in all the wrong places

Been all around the world, seen so many faces

But I’m always looking for love in all the wrong places

I woke up the next morning all tangled up in her hair

and that’s when I realized she had me right where she wanted me

She told me I’d taken her places that she’d never been before

But really she took me to a place I promised myself I’d never return to

And I was fucked up

And the thing was I didn’t feel bad about what I’d done

I just felt stupid for trying to fight it for so long

I mean really, who I was fooling

I knew what time it was soon as I saw her

Soon as she smiled at a nigger I could tell what her favorite position was

And I damn sure gave it to her

I thought I had changed

But niggas never change

But it took that one night

That one passionate night for me to realize what I needed to do

I gotta stop fucking with these hos off of MySpace dog

Some say she was from Cali, some say the Carolinas

Mom was a belly dancer, pop' was a neverminder

No drugs or alcohol no weed no marijuana

You’d think that backstage was the last place you’d find her

You’d think the backstage

Would be the last place you’d find her

Been all around the world

Seen so many faces

Was always looking for love in all the wrong places

Been all around the world

Seen so many faces

Was always looking for love in all the wrong places

Been all around the world

Seen so many faces

Well well well

Was always looking for love in all the wrong places

Oh yeah

Been all around the world

Seen so many faces

Backstage girl

Was always looking for love in all the wrong places