Released: October 1, 1994
Songwriter: Neil Finn
Producer: Martin Glover
[Verse 1]
Detective is flat
No longer is always flat out
Got the number of the getaway car
Didn't get very far
[Verse 2]
As lucid as hell
These images moving so fast
Like a fever
So close to the bone
I don't feel too well
[Chorus]
And if you choose
To take that path
I will play you like a shark
And I'll clutch at your heart
I'll come flying like a spark
To enflame you
[Verse 3]
Sleeping alone
For pleasure, the pineapple head
It spins and it spins
Like a number I hold
Don't remember if she was my friend
It was a long time ago
[Chorus]
And if you choose
To take that path
I will play you like a shark
And I'll clutch at your heart
I'll come flying like a spark
To enflame you
[Verse 3: Refrain]
Sleeping alone
For pleasure, the pineapple head
It spins and it spins
Like a number I hold
Don't remember if she was my friend
It was a long time ago
[Pre-Chorus]
And if you choose
To take that path
Would you come to make me pay?
[Chorus]
I will play you like a shark
And I'll clutch at your heart
I'll come flying like a spark
To enflame you
[Outro]
I will clutch at your heart
And come flying like a spark
To enflame you, ah!
Detective is flat
No longer is always flat out
Got the number of the getaway car
Didn't get very far
[Verse 2]
As lucid as hell
These images moving so fast
Like a fever
So close to the bone
I don't feel too well
[Chorus]
And if you choose
To take that path
I will play you like a shark
And I'll clutch at your heart
I'll come flying like a spark
To enflame you
[Verse 3]
Sleeping alone
For pleasure, the pineapple head
It spins and it spins
Like a number I hold
Don't remember if she was my friend
It was a long time ago
[Chorus]
And if you choose
To take that path
I will play you like a shark
And I'll clutch at your heart
I'll come flying like a spark
To enflame you
[Verse 3: Refrain]
Sleeping alone
For pleasure, the pineapple head
It spins and it spins
Like a number I hold
Don't remember if she was my friend
It was a long time ago
[Pre-Chorus]
And if you choose
To take that path
Would you come to make me pay?
[Chorus]
I will play you like a shark
And I'll clutch at your heart
I'll come flying like a spark
To enflame you
[Outro]
I will clutch at your heart
And come flying like a spark
To enflame you, ah!
more tracks from the album
The Very Very Best of Crowded House
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- It’s Only Natural
- I Feel Possessed
- Better Be Home Soon
- Distant Sun
- Recurring Dream
- Private Universe
- Something So Strong
- Chocolate Cake
- Not the Girl You Think You Are
- Now We’re Getting Somewhere
- Pour le monde
- Fingers of Love
- Everything Is Good for You
- World Where You Live
- She Called Up
- Into Temptation
- Don’t Dream It’s Over
- Weather with You
- Locked Out
- Instinct
- Whispers and Moans
- Sister Madly
- When You Come
- Never Be the Same
- Nails in My Feet
- Don’t Stop Now
- Mean to Me
- Hole in the River
- Pineapple Head
- Four Seasons in One Day
- Throw Your Arms Around Me
From the albums
- Together Alone (1993)
- Recurring Dream (1996)
- The Very Very Best of Crowded House (2010)
- Together Alone (Deluxe Edition) (2016)
Crowded House popular songs
- Don’t Dream It’s Over
- Weather with You
- Fall at Your Feet
- Better Be Home Soon
- Mean to Me
- Four Seasons in One Day
- Distant Sun
- It’s Only Natural
- Twice If You’re Lucky
- When You Come
- Love This Life
- Never Be the Same
- Nails in My Feet
- Say That Again
- Heaven That I’m Making
- I Am in Love
- Don’t Stop Now
- Black and White Boy
- People Are Like Suns
- Help Is Coming
- All I Ask
- Pineapple Head (live)
- There Goes God
- So You Want to Be a Rock ‘n’ Roll Star