We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Thus Spake Shalimar

from Skinned by Douglas Chay

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 USD  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 4 Douglas Chay releases available on Bandcamp and save 30%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Skinned, Dishwasher and the Washing Machine, A Whole Nother!, and The Deal Box. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      $19.60 USD or more (30% OFF)

     

lyrics

One hot summer's day
I was feeling a little gay
So I primped upon my hair
and I pulled down my underwear
I went commando

And my little voice said (Shalimar!)
Let's find some trouble (Shalimar!)
In a jersey sock on a Marine jock

Get up off your knees, that's what he told me
Cause he would rather hold me
Than go on feeling lonely
Thus spake Shalimar!

(I can understand that
Cause the beautiful boys need love once in a while
maybe even more if they're mama's gone. She can’t do it for them all the time)

I don't mean to be a slut
But I just want to shake my butt
All my friends they caution me
They say that I'm embarrassing my self in public

And my little voice said (Shalimar)
I'm gonna do it (Shalimar)
Changing into it
A square cut split, bikini brief
a silk charmeuse with a red g-string

Get down on your knees that's what he told me
Now that he knows I'm only
Looking for a phony
Thus spake Shalimar!

(and that would sho nuff be me
You know what I did? I said to myself, I liked it better back when he thought I was respectable)

and he wanted to hold me
Instead of wanting to fill me
Fill me up with all his glory

(And you know about that glory. That’s where he always comes out the hero. Yeah, it’s fun at first. But when it narrows down/It’s as dull as life itself.
Plug it up. Take it from me.)

© 2002 Douglas Chay All Rights Reserved ASCAP

credits

from Skinned, released September 23, 2002

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Douglas Chay image

Douglas Chay Baltimore, Maryland

Melodic, fuzz drenched songs celebrating household objects and abject alienation. Chay was part of the Columbia, SC music scene in the late '80s/early '90s and fronted the band Deal Box.

contact / help

Contact Douglas Chay

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Douglas Chay, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featured guests are the golden-voiced Baby Rose and psyche soulsters Brainstory.
listen now