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Why Can't You Be?

Why can't you be...
Just a little bit taller?
Makin' a million dollars?
A Nobel Prize winner?
At home cooking me dinner?

Why can't you be a beauty queen?
Why can't you be a sex machine?
Why can't you be what might have been?
I like you fine and we have good times
But you're not my fantasy

So why can't you be...
Just a little bit hotter?
A land tycoon's daughter?
Deeper than Hegel and Nietzsche?
Naked and wet when I meet ya?

Why can't you be a beauty queen?
Why can't you be a sex machine?
Just like the girl in the magazine?
I like you fine--

Wait! I changed my mind!
I say...

I think I'm in love!
(He thinks he's in love)
But I don't know for sure
Maybe I could be more certain
If you were a little more perfect
Maybe then I could take that leap
That leap
That leap of faith!

(SOLO)

So why can't you be...
Sharp as a quantum mechanic?
Calming me d-down when I p-panic?
Soothing my every nerve?
Someone that I don't deserve?

Why can't you be a beauty queen?
Why can't you be my sex machine?
Why can't you be what might have been?
I like you fine and we have good times
But you're not my fantasy

So why can't you be?


© 2004 Roger Quickly