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Looking for the Girl Lyrics by Jarvis Cocker

Music from ‘Likely Stories’

2016

Let's get some frames exposed
Shed your staples and your clothes
Now give me all you've got to give, positive and negative
F-stops and G-strings, two of my favourite things
I don't want to join in
And here you must be joking
I just want to photograph you

Where have you been all my life
I don't want you for my wife
I like to look, and you look great, in 5 by 4 or 10 by 8
On the page, you are my muse
In my owns, you have no use
You'd better stay under the bed
Or in the dark of my darkroom instead
Because I just want to photograph you

Photographs don't hug you
Photographs don't get old
Photographs, photographs, photographs do as they are told
All the things I said I do, I never could have done
Because I've already shot my loads
And let me load another one
You don't like my attitude?
Well I, I only like you when you're nude
No, I don't want you to be real
Too much hard work does not appeal
No, I just want to photograph you

About “Looking for the Girl” by Jarvis Cocker

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"Looking for the Girl" is credited to Jarvis Cocker. Songwriting credits may include additional writers listed on the release; check the credits section on this page for linked collaborators.

"Looking for the Girl" appears on "Music from ‘Likely Stories’" in 2016.

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