Wanna Be You
By John Salter
If I had your pout and stare and I really didn’t care
Would I
Be You, Be You
If I had your nails and hair and personality to spare
Would I
Be You, Be You
If I talked so au contraire and had a pretty young au pair
Would I
Be You, Be You
If I covered Marie Claire and had perky things to bare
Would I
Be You, be You
If I got close enough to feel all the sins that you conceal that you promise never to reveal,
Would I
Be You, Be You
If I dropped A-lister names or put the critics all to shame or tried to never take the blame,
Would I
Be You, Be You.
If I can see your film in Cannes or be on your lover’s arm or fake your oh so easy charm
Would I
Be You, Be You
If I bought your cheesy merch and I never went to church and I worshipped Google Search
Would I
Be You, Be You
If I spruiked a magic potion or had your rhythmic hippy motion or could create a mad commotion when I dived into the ocean
Would I
Be You, Be You
If the paparazzi waited at your community all gated and I climbed the fence gold-plated as you drove past number-plated
Would I
Be You, Be You
If I screamed and jumped and waved and put your super-fans to shame and talked of you until I raved and made myself your slave,
Would I
Be You, Be You.
If I want to be your DNA and slip into your heels all day and be your spritz and your entrée and cruise your Porsche down the highway to your private yachted Bay to write the lyrics that’ll slay from New York to Saint-Tropez and never have to pay for the perfect sweaty lay in your tropic hide-away would it then be true to say
That
I would
Be You, You
How do I get close enough to you
To believe that it is true,
That there is no Me & You
I would then become just You.
And I would
Be You, Be You,
How do I get close enough to you,
To believe that it is true,
That there is no Me & You,
I would then become just You.
And I would
Be You, Be You.
Close enough to you, to believe that it is true,
To be stuck on you like glue.
And all the wealth that I’d accrue
Leave them behind in the rearview
Middle-finger them so you,
Can show them all just who is who.
And
Be You.
Ha ha.
