John Hiatt's sales have never quite matched his reputation. Hiatt's songs were covered successfully by everyone from Bonnie Raitt, Ronnie Milsap, and Dr. Feelgood to Iggy Pop, Three Dog Night, and the Neville Brothers, yet it took him 13 years to reach the charts himself. Of course, it nearly took him that long to find his own style. Hiatt began his solo career in 1974, and over the next decade he ran through a number of different styles from rock & roll to new wave pop before he finally settled on a rootsy fusion of rock & roll, country, blues, and folk with his 1987 album Bring the Family.
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Getting Excited Lyrics
John Hiatt
Just a basement party with some high school friends
Boys touching girls, like they did back then
But that fat boy you invited
Hes getting excited
Underneath red lights he cant believe his eyes
Pushing back his tears while fingers crawl up thighs
And it all seems so damned one-sided
Chorus:
Now hes getting excited
Hes getting excited
And he knows what happens
Now hes getting excited
His love unrequited
Their blouses unfastened
Whats it all about
He was asked to come and play his new guitar
Driven through the snow in his mothers car
Any twelve year old would be delighted
Chorus
This bodys not his
Its no good in this world
Of muscular boys
And giggling girls
And all the pretty ones stand undivided
Now hes getting excited
Just a basement party and this is where ends
Some of us make love, some of us pretend
Chorus
Hes getting excited
Hes getting, hes getting excited
Hes getting excited
Hes getting, hes getting excited