I Want to be You (#2)

from Legal Fiction by Ahmed El-Motassem

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You’ve got so much that I don’t have, you’re perfect!
Said the little man fan,
to himself;
Oh what style, what showmanship,
it’s you that I worship;
And I want to be you,
I want to be you,
Oh you man god, oh you man goddess!
You’re the best, I’m the rest,
I could steal your looks, walk your walk, touch my skin while thinkin I’m
someone else,
Or hide inside, what my mind, makes out
of you;
Some days I wake up wishing to be,
a character preserved inside a movie, And wouldn’t it be a perfect fantasy!
So you play your major god role,
me stuck in my minor dog role;
Why? my real self it seems
like someone I’m always preparing to be... Until then, and as for now here;
I want to be you,
I’d give all my money! I want to be you, take my time too;
I want to be you,
when it’s me I can’t stand;
I want to be you,
oh so bad!
I want to be you,
all so evolved yet ever so insecure; I want to be you,
forever youth!

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from Legal Fiction, released February 2, 2007
Words: A. El-Motassem
Music: A. El-Motassem / F. Lonberg-Holm

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