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All I Really Want From You (Take 1)

from Everything Is Happening All The Time by S.J. Roberts & Company

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Some creeps, they come up and solict me,
Try to trick me with their promises of paradise
They wave their arms out on the streets,
Kicking up the heat, and yet they don't even know the word why
I don't need no prophet, baby, and I don't need nobody's lies
So all I really want from you is someone I can get behind

Some freak's been trying to beat me, trying so hard to cheat me
Like the world is just a game to win
But they know I got something that they don't,
They're never going to until they decide to look in
I don't need no criminal, and baby I don't need no king
See, all I really want from you is whatever you came to bring

Some sheep, they come up and salute me
Ask me how I'm doing, while they use me for their own end
And watch, as other people shoot me,
I thank God above me, 'cause I wouldn't want to be them
I don't need no loverboy, and baby I don't need no friend
See, all I really want from you is somebody who don't pretend

Some people don't even say a word
Like some broken bird, all pent up inside of their cage
And speak only when they're spoken to, they try not to show it
But it's writ in the lines of their face
I don't need no joker, baby, and I don't need no flyin' ace
So all I really want from you is someone who can play it straight

Some dreams, they come up and fool me
Trying to seduce me underneath the shelter of my sheets
And hook me onto my fears, and wanton veneers
Like I got nowhere else to be
I don't need no universe, and baby I don't need no stars
So all I really want from you
Yes, all I really want from you
Is whatever you really are

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from Everything Is Happening All The Time, released June 1, 2020
Jordan Herron - flute

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John King Cave is the musical, poetic, and artistic vessel of Paul Waxler-Fahey, a folk artist currently residing in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The name recalls the story of John the apostle in the Cave of Patmos receiving the revelation of Christ the King. ... more

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