"Get Down, Make Love" appears on the Sin single and is a cover of a Queen song. It has been played live by most incarnations of the band at one point. According to a previously unreleased interview Trent Reznor did with Melody Maker magazine, "Get Down, Make Love" was supposed to be a "tongue-in-cheek" cover.
Contents
Samples
The song contains samples from a self-help video as well as a pornographic film from Japan.
Song Credits
- Writing: Freddie Mercury
- © Queen Music Ltd.
- Production: Hypo Luxa
- Engineering: Jeff "Critter" Newell, Alien Jourgensen, Trent Reznor, Sean Beavan
Appearances
Halos
- Sin
Versions
Get Down, Make Love
This is the only available version.
Live
"Get Down Make Love" has been performed live since the Hate 1990 tour. After the second chorus, the band typically rests as Reznor will either sing the last line of the chorus solo, or make motions to the audience, or both. He famously used this moment at the tour stop in Camden, NJ, in 2006 to tell off someone for spitting on him.
Lyrics
Get down, make love
You take my body, I give you heat
You say you're hungry, I give you meat
I suck your mind, you blow my head
Make love inside your bed
Everybody get down, make love
Get down, make love
Everytime I get hot you want to cool down
Everytime I get high you say you want to come down
You say it's enough
In fact it's too much
Everytime I want to get down
Get down, make love
I can squeeze, you can shake me
I can feel when you break me
Come on so heavy when you take me
You make love, you make love, you make love, you make love
You can make
Everybody get down, make love
Get down, make love
Everytime I get high you want to cool down
Everytime I get hot you say you want to come down
You say it's enough
In fact it's too much
Everytime I want to get down
Get down, make love
There is also an audio sample at the beginning of the song:
How old were you when you first let a man make love to you?
Next who was he?
Next, how did you feel at the time?
Next, how did you feel aftwerwards?
What did you feel, what did you think?
Were you pleased, frightened, ecstatic, disgusted?
What did he say? What words did you speak?
Thats what I want to know,
Now, tell me, now, now, all of it, now, tell me, yes!