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Spread by Outkast

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Outkast

Spread

Release date: 22nd September 2003

From Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Track 5
3:51
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About This Track

André 3000 channels his inner Prince on this falsetto-led exercise in seduction, the production minimal enough to let the vocal theatrics breathe. The song moves through its argument with a kind of breathless urgency, desire and consent tangled together in the phrasing. There's a playfulness to it, a willingness to sound a little ridiculous in service of the bit. The lyrics work in layers. Surface level, it's straightforward bedroom talk. Underneath, there's a fastidiousness about reading signals and respecting boundaries, a repeated insistence that this only happens if both parties want it. The song never quite settles into a single register, which keeps it from feeling like a simple come-on. It's too arch, too self-aware, too willing to undercut itself with a joke or a non-sequitur to land as pure seduction.

"Spread" is a track by Outkast, from the album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, released 22nd September 2003. The track is 3:51 long. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 1 article about Outkast.

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Lyrics

Spread

I don't want to move too fast, but
Can't resist your sexy ass
Just spread, spread for me
I can't, I can't wait to get you home
Don't want to come on too strong, but
I'll play in you all day long
Just spread, spread for me
I can't, I can't wait to get you home

I, I can't read minds, but I can read yours
I think she says that she wants to pour
Your, your, yourself all over me
What you think? I could be wrong, but peoples don't lie
And if they do, by God, they must fry
(Fry?)
You know, like electric chair, the way you stare
(Yeah, I'm there)
You committed a crime and I'm the victim

I've got an eye out for shit that cries out passionately
We'll do things backwardly, forwardly, horizontally
I'm too young to be settling down
Quick to change my mind tomorrow
So now can I borrow your timid torso
More so than your soul, honest me gotta be how I roll

Fuck the rhythm, tuck the rhythm under your bosom
You're the prism, Shirley Chislom
Was the first, let's rehearse making a baby
Put in your order, I want a baby daughter
Dance on the tip of my tongue
Shake the clouds 'til there's no more wetness in them
Tell your homegirls that you will send them
A postcard from 3000, hard!

Don't want to make you feel strange, but
Don't let these words be in vain
So spread, spread for me
I can't, I can't wait to get you home
Nature knows that I want you, but
Not unless you want me too
So spread, spread for me
I can't, I can't wait to get you home

I don't want to move too fast, but
Can't resist your sexy ass
Just spread, spread for me
I can't, I can't wait to get you home
Don't want to come on too strong, but
I'll play in you all day long
Just spread, spread for me
I can't, I can't wait to get you home
Don't want to make you feel strange, but
Don't let these words be in vain
So spread, spread for me
I can't, I can't wait to get you home
Nature knows that I want you, but
Not unless you want me too
So spread, spread for me
I can't, I can't wait to get you home

Knowing after

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Track details

From Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

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Album
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
Outkast
23rd September 2003
Track number
5
Release year
2003
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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    André 3000
    Producer
    André 3000
    Keyboards
    Kevin Kendrick
    Assistant Mixing Engineer
    Alex Reverberi
    Assistant Recording Engineer
    Josh Monroy, Warren Bletcher
    Electric Bass
    Kevin Smith (Bass)
    Mastering Engineer
    Brian Gardner
    Mixing Engineer
    Neal Pogue
    Pre-Mixing Engineer
    John Frye
    Recording Engineer
    John Frye, Pete Novak, Robert Hannon
    Scratches
    DJ Cutmaster Swiff
    Trumpet
    Hornz Unlimited, Jason Freeman, Jerry Freeman, Kebbi Williams, Richard Owens
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