Lay Lady Lay
Lay lady lay, lay
across my big brass bed
Lay lady lay, lay across my big brass bed
Whatever colours
you have in your mind
I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine
Lay lady lay, lay across my big brass bed
Stay lady stay,
stay with your man a while
Until the break of day, let me see you make me smile
Your clothes are
dirty but your hands are clean
And I'm the best thing that you've ever seen
Stay lady stay, stay with your man a while
Why wait any longer
for the world to begin
You can have
your cake and eat it too
Why wait any longer for the one you love
When I'm standing in front of you
Lay lady lay, lay
across my big brass bed
Stay lady stay, stay with your man a while
You long to see
me in the morning light
You long to reach for me in the night
Stay lady stay,
stay while the night is still ahead
So maybe I'll stay when the night is still ahead
Stay lady stay, stay while the night is still ahead
So maybe I'll stay when the night is still ahead
information
Recorded & produced at Roundhouse, London & Duper, Bergen, Norway by Even Johansen & Jørgen Træn.
Engineered by Dan Frampton for Stephen Budd Management
Mixed by Jørgen Træn at Roundhouse, London
- Appears on:
- Lay Lady Lay (Single) - Track 1, On Your Side - Track 7
- Even Johansen:
- drums, guitars, percussion & vocals
- Gemma Hayes:
- singing
- Jørgen Træn:
- bass, keyboards
- Sally Herbert:
- string and bass arrangement
- Strings:
- Brian G. Wright (violin), Ellen Blair (viola), Sally Herbert (violin), Dinah Beamish (cello), Nick Etwell (Flugel horn), Heidi Bowdler (French horn)
The way I've understood it, it's one of the most beautiful love songs ever written. And making it into a duet was...the song is so old that it was about time that the guy in the song got to meet the girl at least. But it's basically just a really lovely love song, even though you don't know if it's going to work out of not you know it's very positive.
—Even