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A Man Loving a Man dial-up | broadband
words and music by Jonathan Best
Why am I so scared
Why am I so blue
Why is it so hard to be close to you
Let me turn away
Let me walk home slow
There’s too much on my mind
So just let me go
But when I get home and turn on the TV
That box expects me to be what it wants me to be
I’m finding it hard to understand
What it means to be a man
I have a place inside
Where no man ever goes
Even my own heart it doesn’t know
It is so well hid
So I can’t get hurt
But now I think that I’m under orange alert
When I was just a boy my very best friend
Touched me like I never wanted it to end
But my friends laughed and they shamed me
Then I grew up to be a man
I wanted every woman I could see
I tried so hard to be what a man is supposed to be
I found it hard to understand
A man loving a man
Why am I so scared
Why am I so blue
Why is it so hard to be close to you
Let me turn away
Let me walk home slow
Right back to that place
No man ever goes
But maybe if I could just set myself free
And be the man that only I want to be
Then maybe I could understand
A man loving a man
Maybe if I could just love myself head to knee
And keep loving myself unconditionally
Then maybe I could understand
A man loving a man
Maybe even I could understand
A man loving a man
Cheerios dial-up | broadband
words and music by Jonathan Best
I was sittin’ by the telephone
I could tell it could see me crying
Took my love to Sheridan Square
But the women they weren’t buying
Came back home to my telephone
Called every number that I owned
Gave them every yes I had
All they gave me back was nos
So I had to get out my box of Cheerios
I had to pour me a bowl of Cheerios
How many dreams must I wake up from
Before I know I’m just a dreamer
How many times must she lie to me
‘Till I can just say what the heck and believe her
Took the train to the moon last night
Spread on the mustard and had a bite
It didn’t fill me up too well
Why it didn’t only heaven knows
But I had to get out my box of Cheerios
I had to pour me a bowl of Cheerios
Cheerios, Cheerios
I had a couple of bowls of those
It was so good that I had some more
I had so much some went on the floor
I started fearing that I had to much when my mouth just wouldn’t close
But I had to get out another box of Cheerios
I had to pour me a bowl of Cheerios
I put the milk on the bowl of Cheerios
I dropped my face into the bowl of Cheerios
Free Like Jumbo
words and music by Jonathan Best, Mary Poole, Ceal Villar and Katan Moore
Bangled elephant
Flyin' through the sideshow
No one's watching him
I guess he's on his own now
And I'm walkin' whistlein' hummin' and listening
And I'm walkin' whistlein' looking and listening
Crazy little man
With his big shoes barkin'
Tattooed human fly
Winks in my direction
And I'm walkin' whistlein' hummin' and listening
And I'm walkin' whistlein' looking and listening
When the ringmaster calls me
I have to answer no
I love to watch and listen
But I'm not in your show
Livin' in the wild free like Jumbo
I don't mind livin' in the jungle
From the Big Bang
words and music by Jonathan Best
I had a dream
It washed away the anger
And helped me to remember
Just who we are
And in that dream
We were exploring caves when
A light drew you deeper into
Places unknown
Don’t forget to wake me up I’ll
Love you while my dreams are hot and
Just in case I done forgot just
What it is that we have got you must
Not be scared to wake me up I’ll
Love you and I’m never gonna stop
And in that dream
Your voice was singing to me
Words that went right through me
Warming my flesh
The words that you sang
Were from an unknown language
Sounds that I never heard before
Rockin’ my soul
Don’t forget to wake me up I’ll
Love you while my dreams are hot and
Just in case I done forgot just
What it is that we have got you must
Not be scared to wake me up I’ll
Love you and I’m never gonna stop
We go back to the big bang where
We first met
I don’t understand what my maker told me
But her words I’ll never forget
She said our love is not about two candles melting into one
Our love is not that kind of coupledom
It’s more like a big black hole that’s a billion times bigger than the sum
It’s from the big bang
That’s where it’s from
Our love just keeps expanding
Our love just keeps expanding
Expanding and expanding and expanding…
I had a dream
It washed away the anger
And helped me to remember
Just who we are
Go back to Starbucks get a latte
Go back to Starbucks get another
Go back to Starbucks get a latte
Go back to Starbucks get another
Go back to Starbucks get a latte
Go back to Starbucks get another
Go back to Starbucks get a latte
And then we’ll fall into the Gap
You Don't Know Nothin' (Songs From Before I Got Laid) dial-up | broadband
You Don't Know Nothin' (Inside the M.A.D. Linguist) dial-up | broadband
words and music by Jonathan Best
You don't know nothin' 'bout electric shocks
You don't know nothin' 'bout high heeled socks
You don't know nothin' 'bout a full man's shoe
You don't know nothin' 'bout glue
You don't know nothin' 'bout where you been
You don't know nothin' 'bout wearin' thin
You don't know nothin' 'bout why you came
You don't know nothin' 'bout Jane
You don't know nothin' 'bout Harold and Maude
You don't know nothin' 'bout gettin' pawed
You don't know nothin' 'bout shoppin' at the mall
You don't know nothin' at all nothin' at all and that just about some it up
all songs Copyright © 2008 Jonathan Best.