Well you can need me
Well I want you to
And you can feed me
How I like that too
But don't you lead me
I won't follow you
Listen here
I don't fear
I don't want to be your whipping boy

Oh - you can tease me
Oh - how I want you to
And you can squeeze me
Baby, I like that too
But don't you lead me
I won't follow you
Listen here
I don't fear
I don't want to be your whipping boy

Oh - you can hold me
Baby, I want you to
And you can scold me
Yes, I like that too
But don't you lead me
I won't follow you
Listen here
I don't fear
I don't want to be your whipping boy

Well you can need me
Well I want you to
And you can feed me
Baby, I like that too
But don't you lead me
I won't follow you
Listen here
I don't fear
I don't want to be your whipping boy

© 1973 - Charlena Music (BMI)


Also appears on

Welcome To The Cruel World 1994 - Virgin Records America, Inc.

"Gold To Me" (EP) remix, Australia, 1995 / "Like A King - Whipping Boy" (EP) edit and remix, UK, 1994 / "Hits Post Modern Syndrome Waif Me" (compilation) / "The Rebirth of Cool, Vol.5" (compilation), UK.


Notes

Chris Darrow : "The song was written about a strained marriage and I needed to vent my feelings. The term whipping boy comes from the Middle Ages when the rich could pay someone to take their punishment for them, hence, Whipping Boy. The Catholics had something similar in that you could pay someone to eat your sins instead of getting the karma attached. They were called sin eaters."

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