"Lord of the Thighs" begins with one of those impeccable Joey Kramer drumbeats (like "Walk This Way") then segues into a startlingly crisp keyboard riff, underlined by the shivering guitars of Perry and Whitford. It has a certain blaxploitation feel about it, a slinky, underworld sexuality, befitting this album's preoccupation with sex and violence. Ostensibly, the song is about a pimp, but like a lot of Tyler-penned lyrics, it doesn't approach the subject in language anyone else would use, in particular the title phrase/chorus:
You got the look in your eyes
Although you really don't mind it
I am the lord of your thighs
Yes, it's a silly title with a reference to a book that is as far away from this subject matter as you can get. It's played almost dreadfully straight, actually. But it's also a pretty awesome song and the last minute or so is spent cranking out that riff while the back-up guitar wails in the background like sex heard through a bedroom wall. Check out any live version where it balloons to 7 or 8 minutes of mesmeric jamming.
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