Songs and Lyrics (Lehrer)/Baby, Is It Love?

by Thomas Andrew Lehrer

BABY, IS IT LOVE?

(original version)

words by Tom Lehrer

I see flashing strobes
And mirrored globes
And stereo merry-go-rounds.

A choir sings
And a thousand strings
Make luxuriant, prurient sounds.

You're, like --- beautiful
This is real, this is right, this is it!
You're, like --- beautiful
This is it, but I have to admit

Though you're hugging me
And there's sunsets and rockets and thunder
Something's bugging me
And I think of tomorrow and wonder:

(Refrain:)

Some kind of magic has captured us Thrilled and enraptured us But --- Is this emotion devotion As deep as the ocean, Or what? Was that a tender caress Or only a grope? Baby, Is it love --- Or is it the dope?