If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you If you want a partner Take my hand Or if you want to strike me down in anger Here I stand I'm your man
If you want a boxer I will step into the ring for you And if you want a doctor I'll examine every inch of you If you want a driver Climb inside Or if you want to take me for a ride You know you can I'm your man
Ah the moon's too bright The chains too tight The beast won't go to sleep I've been running through these promises to you
That I made and I could not keep Ah but a man never got a woman back Not by begging on his knees Or I'd crawl to you baby And I'd fall at your feet And I'd howl at your beauty Like a dog in heat And I'd claw at your heart And I'd tear at your sheet I'd say please I'm your man
And if you've got to sleep A moment on the road I will steer for you And if you want to work the street alone I'll disappear for you If you want a father for your child Or only want to walk with me a while Across the sand I'm your man
Listening to the song below and looking at the slide show pictures from the Depression era that accompany it, I cannot help but be reminded of the bread/food/milk lines in 'communist' Eastern Europe. The only difference is that in those countries everybody was in line and when we got to the end of it, we had the money to pay for the scarce food. Shortage for you meant shortage for me and there was some comfort in the egalitarian nature of that misery. In the aftermath of capitalist greed, however, there is a part of the population—the guilty part, might I add—that never has the need to get near those lines, whereas the majority of the people are forced by their conditions to wait for hours for a pitiful pittance of food for mere sustenance.
I can finally put this song up now that I understand it. Here's an accompanying audio with a slide show of the singer. There are minute, insignificant differences between the poem and the song, and the stanza [in brackets] is not sung. Enjoy!
... tu es partout car tu es dans mon cœur tu es partout car tu es mon bonheur toutes les choses qui sont autour de moi même la vie ne représente que toi des fois je rêve que je suis dans tes bras et qu'à l'oreille tu me parles tout bas tu dis des choses qui font fermer les yeux et moi je trouve ça merveilleux...
