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
Together Alone (Deluxe Edition)
- Locked Out
- Private Universe (Home Demo)
- The Same Language as Me (Live)
- Tail of a Comet (Live)
- Distant Sun (Writing Demo)
- I Am in Love (Band Demo)
- Fingers of Love (Band Demo)
- Fingers of Love (Alternative Studio Take)
- Locked Out (Zen Mix)
- Newcastle Jam (Studio Version)
- Convent Girls (Studio Version)
- Zen Roxy
- Fingers of Love (Writing Demo)
- Blue Smoke (Home Demo)
- In My Command
- Nails in My Feet
- Black and White Boy
- Kare Kare
- Pineapple Head
- Walking on the Spot
- Together Alone
- Distant Sun
- Private Universe
- Skin Feeling
- Fingers of Love
- Catherine Wheels
- Black and White Boy (Early Rough Mix)
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