Red - Lyrics and Thoughts

Hey there boy, take a look at me
I’m the prettiest thing that you ever did see
Got a shiny red car that’s done broke good
Won’t you take a little peek here under my hood

Blood red like my lips
Your eyes all on my hips
Down your back run my finger tips
Red blood on my lips

Hey there boy, do you like my view
There are so many things I could do to you
Not a question of if but when you should
Steal a little old kiss here under my hood

So follow me boy let’s head out back
Take a little walk off the beaten track
Cause I want you all alone when I make you scream
Howl at the moon in your ecstasy

Blood red like my lips
Your eyes all on my hips
Down your back run my finger tips
Red blood on my lips

Blood red rising fast
Follow me to the last
Big eyes in the full moonlight
Red blood on teeth tonight

Don’t mind my nails, how they’re sharpened so long
Or my nose how it grows as the darkness falls
It’s all a trick of light in the evening wood
It’s just the girl from the road here under my hood

So kiss me boy, and I’ll kiss you
Till we both howl at the full moon
Our skins with sweat are in complete coat
You tilt your head back, I rip out your throat

Red Blood, how it drips
From my mouth and my finger tips
Naked stained there as I stood
Little Bloody Red Riding Hood

Red Blood, how it drips
From my mouth and my finger tips
Boy never go out into that wood
With Little Bloody Red Riding Hood

Thoughts:

Nathan: I was experimenting with a Saidi rhythm and it occurred to me that there was an inherent bass line in the rhythm. It screamed blues to me so i busted out some really sloppy blues and it fit totally! I put it up on Soundcloud and left it there for a few weeks when (surprise, surprise!) Alyssa dropped me a line with the lyrics. I  knew upon reading them that I had to get Jody Ellen to sing it. She's got just the sultry delivery that the song needed.

Alyssa: As soon as I hear the bluesy guitar in this one, my mind skipped back to Louisiana, dirt floor dance halls, bare feet, and sexiness.  Which, when I think of Grimm fairy tales, Little Red Riding Hood and the Predatory wolf has the most sexual undertones.  I knew the piece had to be about that story.  Nathan wanted it to be about Jack and the Beanstalk originally, but nope, this one was all Red.  But I wanted Red as the seductress, the temptor.  No longer the victim but the killer.  So werewolf was an easy leap.  I wrote the whole piece in about 20 minutes and sent it to Nathan with the message:  “Oops, I think I just wrote lyrics for this piece.”  I wrote it with Jody Ellen’s voice in mind.  Luckily Nathan made that connection before I even had to say anything and Jody was sweet enough to agree to give the lyrics and music some seriously sexy soul.  No one else really could have embodied it quite so well.  Thanks Jody!