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That's Just What I Am

from Joy in the New by Andersen Silva

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This song is, in part, an answer to Aimee Mann's "That's Just What You Are." It's also a light-hearted love song. Not everything I write is deadly serious... I wrote and recorded this tune around the same time as "Second Shot" and "Dances on Clouds."

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I'm not a man makin' tons and tons of money,
I'm just a guy, tryin' hard to find things funny.
I'm the boy who wants to call you 'honey,'
'Cos around you, my days always seem sunny!

I'm not a saint, though for you I'd try to be one.
I'm just a man who knows he's found a reason,
For everything to which there is a season,
'Cos it is you whom I long to be pleasin'...

CHORUS:
I'm a fool,
I'm a prince,
For lack of further evidence,

I'm your hero
On the lam,
That's just what I am!

I'm not a jerk, afraid to try a real change,
Not a sleepwalking man, no, I'm really not that strange.
I'm not your rival, I don't want to compete;
I'm your partner and your friend; you make me complete.

CHORUS:
Guitar player
With a pick,
I'm a hopeless romantic,

I'm the guy
Who'll push the pram,
That's just what I am!

Without you I am grim and fatalistic;
But with you I am supercalifragilistic!
I'm happy and I'm silly, all because of you.
And that is why I am the man who loves you.

Lovestruck boy,
(I am the man who loves you...)
I'm your toy!
(I am the man who loves you...)
Cybergeek,
(I am the man who loves you...)
I'm not a freak!
(I am the man who loves you...)
I'm your poet,
(I am the man who loves you...)
I think you know it.
(I am the man who loves you...)

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from Joy in the New, released August 3, 2004
written and recorded by Andersen Silva

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Let Talking Heads, David Bowie, Trent Reznor, the Cars, Roger Waters, and half a Ramone take turns writing and playing songs together, with Frank Zappa, Lou Reed, and Ringo Starr splitting vocal duties, and you might get something like Andersen Silva's music. Or you might not. ... more

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