DON'T YOU HAVE THE GUTS



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"Don't You Have the Guts" is a song written by Jay Kay Ray that he, by his own admission, has been trying to release since he was "eight or nine." It first surfaced in Plaastik shows when Nick Parker led the others into it during one of the few medleys in the Playtime Tour, on 8/4/83. Only the first verse and chorus had been written at that point and Parker is unable to remember most of those parts.

Nick later explained that Jay Kay Ray was allowed into the band partially because he impressed the others so much with this light funk potboiler. "Even on an acoustic, it cooked." In that spirit, it returned in complete form on the Diplomacy tour during the nightly acoustic set, though it was one of the less common inclusions. The song had been rediscovered in 1994 when Parker slipped into a rendition of it at his piano and insisted it would be on the next album. Jay had finished it when he considered nominating it for the "Diskobox" soundtrack. It was given a full studio electric treatment for HERD POLITICS which was reluctantly dropped on a 4-3 vote (Jay was in the majority) when it was felt that it simply didn't fit the fabric of the album. Refusing to issue it simply as a b-side, Plaastik set it aside for a future album but since then they seem to have forgotten about its existence.


This is an invitation to all the girls
To do some math with me
We can add the bed, subtract the clothes
Divide the legs and I'll multiply

Don't you have the guts for math?
Don't you have the guts for math?
Are you ready for math?
Is math worth waiting for?

Don't know much about sex
But I do know that I love you
And I know that if you love me too
I can probably learn

Don't you have the guts, baby?

Fucking is a science
Math is a science
Science is a job

Don't you have the guts?
Don't you have the guts?
Don't you have the guts?