Sunday, October 02, 2011

Why try to change me now?



Frank Sinatra sang it originally, and Fiona Apple did a beautiful cover with her beautiful voice (and I thought at first, I'd like to use this cover because I am a woman and it better voices out my woman self). But then I found this Cy Coleman version, and you know when you listen to a song with a smile on your lips and your eyes slightly shining with uhh maybe excess lacrimal fluid that you've found the song that's singing how you feel.

So this here is the Cy Coleman version.

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I'm sentimental, so I walk in the rain
I've got some habits even I can't explain
Could start for the corner, turn up in Spain
But why try to change me now?

I sit and daydream, I've got daydreams galore
Cigarette ashes, there they go on the floor
I'll go away weekends, leave my keys in the door
But why try to change me now?

Why can't I be more conventional?
People talk, people stare, so I try
But that's not for me, 'cause I can't see
My kind of crazy world go passing me by

So, let people wonder, let 'em laugh, let 'em frown
You know I'll love you till the moon's upside down
Don't you remember I was always your clown?
Why try to change me now?

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