Avenue A Records: Music
I'd Rather Be You
(Joe Cassady & The West End Sound)
I could nail roofs, I could go running loose,
I could talk to you in my dreams
I could hold it all in or I could spill it out again,
I could try to be everything I've seen
I could walk on water or I could drown in the sea
Or I could sail forever and never be free.
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I'd rather be you.
‘Cause here have been so many people just like me
Who've tried to love everything they're allowed to see
Living too deep and loving too much
When too deep and too much ain't ever enough
So I'd rather be you
I could climb mountains or I could fall to the earth
Or take a ride in the back and let you drive my hearse.
Or I could do what I do and just leave the rest up to you.
Let you decide what it is all really worth.
(Chorus)
Yeah, the rules are the rules but they're made to be broke.
Hardships and sorrows are just dirty jokes.
But the answer's so simple, it's not even here
When the night is quiet and the skies are clear.
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