diff --git a/lib/middleware/token.js b/lib/middleware/token.js
index b4c526e8..ac93fd61 100644
--- a/lib/middleware/token.js
+++ b/lib/middleware/token.js
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ module.exports = function token(server, options) {
   if (!server) { throw new TypeError('oauth2orize.token middleware requires a server argument'); }
   
   return function token(req, res, next) {
+    if (!req.body) { return next(new Error('OAuth2orize requires body parsing. Did you forget body-parser ?')); }
+
     var type = req.body.grant_type;
     
     server._exchange(type, req, res, function(err) {