Pre-Production - Lyrics Analysis

Joe Cocker - You Can Leave Your Hat On

Baby take off your coat

Real slow

Take off your shoes

I'll take off your shoes

Baby take off your dress

Yes, yes, yes

You can leave your hat on

Go over there, turn on the light

Hey, all the lights

Come over here, stand on that chair

Yeah, that's right

Raise your arms up in the air

Now shake 'em

You give me reason to live

Sweet darling, (you can leave your hat on)

You can leave your hat on

Baby, (you can leave your hat on)

You can leave your hat on

Suspicious minds are talkin'

They're tryin' to tear us apart

They don't believe in this love of mine

They don't know what love is

Yeah, I know what love is

There ain't no way

You can leave your hat on

In the song there is reference to the image of a stripper taking off his/her clothes as the song goes on. To stay away from conventionally following every action the lyrics say in order we will use a stripper in a slightly different way. The lyrics are not extremely poetic and can be taken in a rather literal sense. We attempt to convey this literal and tongue-in-cheek feel that the music has in our music video. It shall be an attempt at a comical and feel-good interpretation of the song as we believe this is what was intended when written, and from the other media interpretations of the song we have seen in films, on TV etc.