 Genius Meanings
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CAKE – Short Skirt/Long Jacket
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This is an exaggerated lyrical song that is simply about finding the right girl. It is about how men look for particular women with certain details about them; sometimes these
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CAKE – Short Skirt/Long Jacket Samples
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See all of “Short Skirt/Long Jacket” by CAKE’s samples, covers, remixes, interpolations and live versions
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Imagine Dragons – Short Skirt / Long Jacket
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[Verse 1: Dan Reynolds] / I want a girl with the right allocations / Who is fast and thorough and sharp as a tack / She is playing with her jewelry, she is putting up her hair
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CAKE – Comfort Eagle
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This song is about the music industry’s tactic of taking bands and shaping their sound into a product, using the spread and advertisement of an organized religion as an extended
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CAKE – Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town
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You've painted up your lips and rolled and curled your tinted hair / Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere? / The shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going down / Oh
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CAKE – Excuse Me, I Think I've Got a Heartache
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They just don't know how lost I feel without you / My teardrops never see the light of day / I laugh and joke each time they talk about you / But if I told the truth I'd have to
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CAKE – War Pigs
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Generals gathered in their masses / Just like witches at black masses / Evil minds that plot destruction / Sorcerer of death's construction / In the fields the bodies burning / As
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"Weird Al" Yankovic – Close but No Cigar
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“Close But No Cigar” is a style parody of the band Cake. The song talks about Cigarettes the Cat’s relationship with human women. Right when he thinks he’s found the perfect woman
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ROBBIE TRIPP – Goody Goody (Baddie Alert)
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[HOOK] / Ooh goody goody it's a baddie alert / She the type of girl you takin' out for desert / Ooh goody goody it's a baddie alert / She got a long jacket on with a short mini
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CAKE – Thrills
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“Thrills” is an instrumental cover of a song called “Stories” by the Chakachas. In the original, the musical breaks have muffled male whispers and female laughter. Cake replaces
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The Hood Internet – 2001
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Ooooh, ooh-ooooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooooh-ooooh / (Hip, hip) / Ooooh, ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooooh, ooooh, ooooh / (Hip, hip) / Edit (Four, three, two) / Wake up! (Chicka-ah) / Oh
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CAKE – Meanwhile, Rick James
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Off of Cake’s fourth album, Meanwhile, Rick James is the second track that follows a motif of heartache. The story of the song follows suit, with the singer being at a party with
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CAKE – Strangers in the Night
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Strangers in the night / Exchanging glances / Wond'ring in the night / What were the chances / We'd be sharing love / Before the night was through? / Something in your eyes / Was
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CAKE – Multiply the Heartaches
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One of many country songs covered by Cake, this one was originally recorded by George Jones in 1963.
Cake has also covered songs by Buck Owens, Kenny Rogers, and Willie Nelson.
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CAKE – Mahna Mahna
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Mahna, mahna / Mahna, mahna / Mahna, mahna / Mahna, mahna / Mahna, mahna / Mahna, mahna / (Hey! Ho!) / Mahna, mahna / Mahna, mahna (yeah!) / Mahna, mahna (hey!) / Mahna, mahna
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CAKE – Pretty Pink Ribbon
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[Verse 1] / Without the pretty pink ribbon / You'd end up just like me / Without the pretty pink ribbon / You'd float down to the sea / Without the pretty pink ribbon / You'd say
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CAKE – Long Line of Cars
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There's a long line of cars and they're trying to get through / There's no single explanation, there's no central destination / But this long line of cars is trying to get through
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CAKE – Opera Singer
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“Opera Singer” is the first song off of Cake’s 2001 album, Comfort Eagle. With poppy instrumentation, the lyrics describe the life of an opera singer.
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CAKE – Commissioning a Symphony in C
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So you'll be an Austrian nobleman / Commissioning a symphony in C / Which defies all earthly descriptions / You'll be commissioning a symphony in C / With money you squeezed from
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CAKE – Shadow Stabbing
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Adjectives on the typewriter / He moves his words like a prize fighter / The frenzied pace of the mind inside the cell / The man on the street might just as well be / The man on
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CAKE – Love You Madly
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The speaker wants to have a fun relationship, one without the ultimate goal of getting married. This means that a break-up is unavoidable, but the speaker wants to avoid thinking
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CAKE – Never, Never Gonna Give You Up
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[Verse 1] / Whatever, whatever / Girl, I'll do / Forever and forever, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah / I'll see you through / Because I've got to keep you pleased, in every way I can / I'm
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