Lyrics: State farm

State farm originally appeared as the flip side of Yazoo's single Nobody's diary
State farm originally appeared as the flip side of Yazoo's single Nobody's diary

State farm

High & dried, tyre rubber starts burning
Fill her up now before the table starts turning
Souped up, jacked up, cracked up, stacked up
Louie’s got the gear
And Charlie’s got his back up
And don’t it make you feel good?

Says she’s a dirt box
You’re like a cannibal
Somebody feeds her, sure ain’t the State Farm
Who buys the tickets and who buys the clothes
Puts the liquor in her stomach and the powder up her nose
Move. That’s right
And don’t it make you feel good?

Don’t mind me honey
I’m just looking
Smelt your chicken
And I watched you cooking
Souped up, jacked up, cracked up, stacked up
You’re a bad stain
And you need to be cleaned up

And don’t it make you feel good?
And don’t it make you feel good?

[credit: Clarke/Moyet]

Note: A bit of a riddle, State Farm sketches a party scene. In the first verse Charlie and Louie are getting ready for it. The second pictures an unnamed girl with too much money (not from the State Farm, i.e. social security) which she spends on booze and drugs. A ‘you’ is being spoken to, probably the drug dealer. In the third verse theres an ‘I’ observing the dealer and condemning him.

Video on Youtube (Alison Moyet solo, London 2013)