About The Song
“What You Get Is What You See” is a song by recording artist Tina Turner from her album Break Every Rule (1986). The 12″ single included three versions of the song, the Extended Dance Mix, the Extended Rock Mix and a live version recorded in London in November 1986. A different live recording of the song was later used as the opening track on Turner’s 1988 album Tina Live in Europe. She also included it in her 2009 live album Tina Live. It was recorded during Turner’s 50th Anniversary Tour. The track is from the March 21, 2009 live show at the GelreDome in Arnhem, Netherlands.
The music video for the song was directed by Peter Care, and filmed on-location in Coachella Valley, California.
The song was written by the Terry Britten and Graham Lyle team and was notably different from the three previous singles that they had written for Turner, “What’s Love Got to Do with It”, “We Don’t Need Another Hero” and “Two People”, as it was an up-tempo country-tinged rock track. The song was originally to feature a guitar solo by Eric Clapton, but Clapton’s contribution was accidentally recorded an octave too low; Terry Britten ultimately played the guitar solo himself. Tina Turner said in an interview that “What You Get Is What You See” is her favorite song from the album.[citation needed]
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Lyrics
Oh yeah
Some boys just got the look of a Greek Adonis
And some boys just try to talk you off your feet
Hmm, some boys they’re God’s gift to woman
And some boys just think they’re sweet enough to eat
Try to change the habit of a lifetime
Don’t even try
‘Cause when you cut down deeper than the icing
You’ll realize
What you get is what you see
Ain’t nothing more to it
And if you wanna love a woman like me
It takes a man to do it
If what you get is what you see
Then I don’t want your kind of love
Some guys just got lips that you can’t help kissing
And some guys ust got a smile you can’t resist, mm
And some guys have gotta build a reputation
They just wanna add you to their list
You got a lot of physical attraction
I can’t deny
But can you guarantee me satisfaction?
Well, I’m still waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, ooh
What you get is what you see
Ain’t nothing more to it
And if you wanna love a woman like me
It takes a man to do it
If what you get is what you see
Then I don’t want your kind of love, ooh, yeah
So let me see your cards on the table
Before I buy
I always read the writing on the label
So give me reason to believe
There’s more to you than meets the eye, yeah
What you get is what you see
Ain’t nothing more to it
And if you wanna love a woman like me
It takes a man to do it
If what you get is what you see
Then I don’t want your kind of love
Ain’t nothing more to it, ooh
It doesn’t matter, doesn’t matter, oh, no
I don’t want your kind of love, oh, no
Ain’t nothing else to it, whoa
No, I don’t want your kind of love, ooh
What you, what you see is what you get