hadespussercats wrote:I've also heard that "Baby It's Cold Outside" is the date-rapiest of xmas songs.
I can see why, but I still like it.
I heard that too - let's analyze!
I really can't stay
(but baby it's cold outside)
I've got to go away
(but baby it's cold outside)
This evening has been
(been hoping that you'd drop in)
So very nice
(i'll hold your hands, they're just like ice)
So far, all is well. He's hoping, she's had a "so very nice" evening...etc. It's cold, she says she has to go, and he's trying to persuade her to stay.
My mother will start worry
(beautiful whats your hurry)
My father will be pacing the floor
(listen to the fireplace roar)
So really i'd better scurry
(beautiful please don't hurry)
but maybe just a half a drink more
Still nothing to get in a twist about. I mean, a young woman who wants to stay, but doesn't want her parents to be upset - or wants to stay, but knows that if she stays she'll get up to some business with this fellow, and of course the fellow trying to cajole her to stay....if that's in any way "wrong", then I really need to be sent to a re-education camp of some kind....
(put some records on while i pour)
the neighbors might faint
(baby it's bad out there)
say what's in this drink
(no cabs to be had out there)
i wish i knew how
(your eyes are like starlight now)
to break this spell
(i'll take your hat, your hair looks swell)
i ought to say "no, no, no sir"
(mind if i move in closer)
at least i'm gonna say that i tried
(what's the sense in hurtin' my pride)
i really can't stay
(oh baby don't hold out)
So far, we have a man and a woman having a couple of drinks on a cold night in the winter. They are alone. There is a fireplace "roaring," and he has apparently some top shelf liquor at the ready. He's complimenting her and cajoling. She's swooning, she wants to stay, but is worried about what mom,dad, and the nosey-parker neighbors will think. Is this date rape?
both:baby it's cold out side
i simply must go
(but baby it's cold outside)
the answer is no
(but baby it's cold outside)
your welcome has been
(how lucky that you droped in)
so nice and warm
(look out the window at that storm)
my sister will be suspicious
(gosh your lips look delcious)
my brother will be there at the door
(waves upon the tropical shore)
my maiden aunts mind is vicious
(gosh your lips are delicous)
but maybe just a cigarette more
(never such a blizzard before)
i've gotta get home
(but baby you'd freeze out there)
say lend me a coat
(it's up to your knees out there)
you've really been grand
(i thrill when you touch my hand)
but don't you see?
(how can you do this thing to me?)
there's bound to be talk tomorrow
(think of my lifelong sorrow)
at least there will be plenty implied
(if you got pneumonia and died)
i really can't stay
(get over that old out)
both:baby it's cold
baby it's cold outside
We don't even know if anything happened at the end.
I've heard the date rape story here too, but I really don't see it. I wasn't under the impression that flirting and seducing a woman was "date rape."
I've always liked this song too. It is sooooo Dean Martin, and I always wanted to be as cool as Deano was. To me, he was the coolest by far of the old "Rat Pack" and everything he did was suave and classy.
