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Babies is a song and single by British rock group Pulp. It was released as a single for Gift Records in 1992, and was later remixed for the Sisters EP in 1994 . The remixed version featured on the His ‘n’ Hers album and the original single mix on the Intro compilation. The song failed to chart in 1992, but became a Top 20 hit when re-released in 1994, peaking at #19 on the UK Singles Chart.

Babies follows a simple ‘Teen Angst’ story-song. The song’s protagonist, a teenage boy, spends platonic afternoons in a female friend’s room listening to her older sister and the boys she takes to her room and, presumably, has sex with but this isn’t enough for him and he hides in the elder sister’s wardrobe and watches her with David, who works in a local garage. Unable to tell the younger sister, who appears to be the real object of his affections, for fear she will tell her mother the song’s narrator listens outside as she proposes sex to a boy named Neve (The song’s chorus is a proposal of sex ‘I wanna take you home, I wanna give you children…’). Finally he comes ‘home’ to the disappointment that the elder sister has moved out, presumably in an act of nostalgia he re-enters the wardrobe but falls asleep and is found by the elder sister and the two have sex only to be caught by the younger sister, culminating in the boy making the pathetic excuse “I only went with her cos she looks like you”.
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  • His 'N' Hers
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  • His N Hers
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  • Intro: The Gift Recordings
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  • buecherdieb

    anthem!

    17 days ago

  • suddenlyjohnny

    i only went with her cos she looks like you

    24 days ago

  • senorpayne

    i really need to sit down one day and decode what actually goes on in the lyrics of this song [3]

    last month

  • Avacattt

    i really need to sit down one day and decode what actually goes on in the lyrics of this song [2]

    last month

  • MarcelloJose

    y yea yea.. (2)

    March 2012

  • Chala_Charlotte

    I want to have your babies

    February 2012

  • ywdj888

    every good……

    February 2012

  • victoria1908

    great...........

    February 2012

  • jessica_grint

    This is a masterpiece <3

    February 2012

  • VelouriaCambell

    lalalala great intro,amazing song

    January 2012

  • BigJimBob

    you can keep Common People - this is the best song.

    January 2012

  • galinalistens

    The fact that this band grew up so close to me makes me so happy.

    January 2012

  • RandallBoggs

    I think I like this

    January 2012

  • MitschoMitscho

    Lovely lyrics!

    January 2012

  • Hellraiser917

    Oh the memories!!

    November 2011

  • glitterylife

    aadhghhfhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

    November 2011

  • rufuspig

    i really need to sit down one day and decode what actually goes on in the lyrics of this song

    November 2011

  • pabloidz

    Absolutely brilliant

    November 2011

  • oliver55

    What an awesome bass line. I could never get bored of this song.

    October 2011

  • staklee2002mj

    great track

    September 2011
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