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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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