Story Behind the Song
Pepper Merangue is one of two characters I voice in the new anime series "Pink Lemonade." She gives me a chance to be brash, rude, arrogant, and self-centred ... and who DOESN'T need that every once in awhile! I wanted Pepper's first image song to reflect what she thinks about herself, while at the same time showing that her feelings for Jadie aren't completely superficial.
Very few of the original lyrics are intact. I rewrote the majority of them prior to recording. Instead of making this a song about how great Pepper is, I wanted to make this a song about rejection. But not a weepy, depressed song. This is a song to impress, to flaunt, to make Jadie reconsider. And, at the time, to make someone in MY life reconsider. Because there's a bit of Pepper in me as well
Lyrics
I'm looking at you
Past the moving crowd
I'm still holding back
Wanna say it aloud
I see her with you
And I wonder what you see in her
[cuz I sure don't see it]
As plain as water, as cold as ice
You'd think someone like you would want a little spice!
Just turn around, baby, look my way
Don't you blink, doncha think I could sink that iceberg
You still call love?
Spicy girl
Gonna rock your world
Gonna change your mind's direction
Never gonna know what you're missin'
'Til you get a little kissin' from a
Spicy girl
I got all that love
That you're dreamin' of
Just turn, call my name, when you realize
What you need!
I watch you moving
Through your life some more
Like there's nothing at all
That you're waiting for
Like life is a job
And you're just punching in and punching out
[life's for living, baby]
If you want everything to be nice
A sugar like you needs to find a little spice
Just turn around, baby, look my way
[... maybe I'm not making myself clear? *laugh*]
Spicy girl
Gonna rock your world
Gonna speed your heart's connection
Never gonna know what you're missin'
'Til you get a little kissin' from a
Spicy girl
I got all that love
That you're dreamin' of
Just turn, call my name, when you realize
What you need!
[No kiddin', I look over at you
And I see you with her, and God I gotta wonder
What you see in a gal like that, when you know
I got it goin' on, and you gimme one chance
And I'll show you what it means to find true romance
[laugh]
Have you ever laughed your way through the night
And then stayed up to watch the sun rise
With a girl who could fly you for a closer look
At the stars that are slowly fading
I just wonder why you're still waiting
To say it]
Spicy girl
Gonna rock your world
Gonna change your mind's direction
Never gonna know what you're missin'
'Til you get a little kissin' from a
Spicy girl
I got all that love
That you're dreamin' of
Just turn, call my name, when you realize ...
Spicy girl
Gonna rock your world
Gonna speed your heart's connection
Never gonna know what you're missin'
'Til you get a little kissin' from a
Spicy girl
I got all that love
That you're dreamin' of
Just turn, call my name, when you realize
What you need
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