Subject: bodily

[Victor Steinbok]

Why would it not just mean "I want your body" (and whatever sexual
implications one can derive from there)? Sure, the subtext is sexual,
but does it really mean "carnally" here?

     VS-)

On 2/22/2011 4:23 PM, Brian Hitchcock wrote:
> I have also heard the term 'bodily' used in the sense of 'carnally' ,
> specifically, in this lyric from the song "Miss Morse" , 2001 (?) by the
> music group Pearls Before Swine:
>
> Oh dear, Miss Morse,
> I want you
> Oh yes, I do,
> I want you.
>
> This may strike you
> Odd-i-ly
> But I want you
> Bodily.
>
> The chorus follows, in Morse Code:
> Dit-dit-dah-dit
> Dit-dit-dah
> Dah-dit-dah-dit
> Dah-dit-dah
> (look it up, it's a common four-letter word)

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