Robbie Williams - Bodies Lyrics

God gave me the sunshine, then showed me my lifeline
I was told it was all mine, then I got laid on the late line
What a day, what a day and your Jesus really died for me
Then Jesus really tried for me

UK and entropy, I feel like it's fuckin' me
Wanna feed off the energy, love living like a deity
What a day, one day and your Jesus really died for me
I guess Jesus really tried for me

Bodies in the Bodhi Tree, bodies making chemistry
Bodies on my family, bodies in the way of me
Bodies in the cemetery
And that's the way it's gonna be

All we've ever wanted is to look good naked
Hope that someone can take it
God save me rejection from my reflection
I want perfection

Praying for the rapture, cause it's stranger getting stranger
And everything's contagious, it's the modern middle ages
All day, every day and if Jesus really died for me
Then Jesus really tried for me

Bodies in the Bodhi Tree, bodies making chemistry
Bodies on my family, bodies in the way of me
Bodies in the cemetery
And that's the way it's gonna be

All we've ever wanted is to look good naked
Hope that someone can take it
God save me rejection from my reflection
I want perfection

Bodies in the Bodhi Tree, bodies making chemistry
Bodies on my family, bodies in the way of me
Bodies in the cemetery

Bodies in the Bodhi Tree, bodies making chemistry
Bodies on my family, bodies in the way of me
Bodies in the cemetery
And that's the way it's gonna be

All we've ever wanted is to look good naked
Hope that someone can take it
God save me rejection from my reflection
I want perfection

Jesus didn't die for you, what do you want?
(I want perfection)
Jesus didn't die for you, what are you on?

Jesus didn't die for you
Jesus didn't die for you
Jesus didn't die for you

• Anonymous

  This is the great song.Thank you Robbie Williams bacause you has returned to this job.

• callmepsycho

  I believe the song is one of double entendre. On the surface, it is talking about humanity’s / Robbie’s personal journey / issues with physical appearance, perfection and mortality. But there is a much deeper meaning stepped in the Judeo-Christian religion
  
  The song is sung from the perspective of Lucifer, who according to the Judeo-Christian religion, was God’s most beautiful creation. Lucifer was head angel but fell victim to vanity thinking himself perfection personified. He rebelled (along with 1/3 of the heavenly bodies / angels / ‘the fallen’) against his creator when informed that he was made to serve humanity / bodies.
  
  He recounts the day he fell (what a day), losing his beauty through this rebellion / sin (entrophy) but has found power through it (sin) and now lives like a deity. He’s looking forward to (praying for) the rapture to rid the world of the infectious medieval beliefs of Christians.
  
  He demonstrates his disdain for humanity with the body references, like some sort of putrid edifice that he sees everywhere. Bodhi is the Sanskrit word for enlightenment, thus he begins with a metaphorical reference with the bodies / carcasses in the tree of enlightment / knowldege of good and evil (ie the tree that Adam and Eve are associated with). He then refers to human procreation / expanding population, bodies / the dead are his family, bodies everywhere getting in the way, lots of dead bodies is the way “its gonna be”.
  
  He then sings in plural about how he and the fallen have been stripped of their beauty and must clothe their appearance. “All we’ve ever wanted (since rebellion) is to look good naked ie how they once did, they just want perfection. Still vain glorious, he asks God to save him not from his ‘sin’ but from the consequences, the horror of his own reflection.
  
  The whole “Jesus didn’t die for you” thing is again double entendre. On one hand he’s talking to himself in first person, Jesus didn’t die for you / ‘the fallen’ but allegedly for these humans / bodies. But he’s also talking to humans / bodies in spite saying you are just like us / in the same sad “fallen” state, just wanting perfection and your hope / ‘salvation’ is in vain (“Jesus didn’t die for you”).
  
  Consider the imagery in the final minute of the clip