Lyrics

The following page is an XSL transformation of XML song lyric data that I transcribed. I'm personally just sick of wanting to sing along with a song and having to trip over wrong lyrics online. I don't always know every word, but I think I make fewer mistakes than any of the popular lyrics sites do. In any case, note that I don't claim any copyright on the lyrics in the source XML document, nor on the transformed XHTML result, unless otherwise specified. The lyrics are copyright of their respective copyright owners.

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Song

Artist:
  • Brandon McCaig
Title:
Wanna Be God
Copyright:
Copyright (c) 2003 Brandon McCaig
Notes:
(Yes, the first verse is a bit of a mouthful...) (Also, yes, I still need to markup the slang...)

Verse

You've said on many occasions that you haven't forgotten me
And you say that your sorry, but lately you've been super busy
You're not much on the phone and don't hang out with friends in the summer
And this E-mail will be short; you've gotta go, or you feel tired
Or you've gotta call a lot of friends back, so you'll keep it short
I've gotta say that sounds backwards, but I'll hold off with my retort
And you're not ignoring me, y'all walked off, but not to get away from me
It's just a coincidence that everytime I approach you've gotta take a leak
And y'all never found me in the halls, if I found you you'd leave
When I try to converse it's like I'm talking to a machine
And yet you say that you're my friend, actin' like we're cool
I'd like to think that I know you, but probably don't, who are you?
Friends I'm cool with; I'd be hurt if they left
Would you think twice about me if I surrendered to death?
Or if I moved away, got signed, wrote an album about my life
And told the world how I feel about you inside

Chorus

I wanna be God
So I could be on top
I'd never feel no pain
I'd always have a job
I'd never get played
By a beautiful lady
I feel so lonely
Because I haven't heard from you lately

Repeat Chorus (x1)

Verse

God must be chauvenistic because he designed people like this
What, for humans to work one gender must be naturally dominant?
You're religious, and stand by God through thick and through thin
That's probably why I'm writing this about why I want to be him
Cause I just want you to be with me; I wanna be with you
I wanna hold you in my arms my lifespan through
I wanna protect you from this world that we are living in
Cause I don't trust it; God, could you redesign it for <subject_name_here>
Rewrite the programmin', so she never feels pain again
At the thought of it give her any and everythin'
Cause that's what I would do, if I was you, if I was God
Maybe God isn't really God because this world was built wrong
And God should probably be able to built a perfect fucking world, shouldn't he?
He's supposed to be the most goddamn powerful being
And if in all of existence nothing can produce perfection
Maybe creation is not even worth all of the stress, and
All of the imperfection that seems to go with being
All the motherfucking blind that can't experience seeing
All the motherfucking deaf who never get to hear nothin'
Fuck, if I was God this world would come with instructions
I think we need an explanation, I need clarification
I'm trippin', if I were God I'd do away with gravitation

Repeat Chorus (x2)

Verse

But then again, everything always seems to work out in the end
And pain I'm feeling always seems to right itself or make sense
So maybe God is doing his job and he deserves a second chance
But you better watch yourself, Lord, you better improve performance
Cause I don't know it's going to work out and trusting you is difficult
Because things always seem to drag on 'til the grenade pin is pulled
And the chaos meter fills, and my brain lacks all those sane chemicals
That balance out these feelings that are pumping rage into my genitals
And control is shifted from my head down to my balls
And thinking isn't worth the thought
Rather irrational thinking's all I think about
And the thought of her with other men has got me wantin' to brawl
So I don't care if I'm outnumbered, overpowered, or staring down a pistol
Knife on my throat, blood on the carpet, or splattered on the fucking wall
I may be crazy by your standards, but to me I'm being thoughtful
Cause, <subject_name_here>, not hearing from you tripped me, now I've stumbled to a fall
And to think, this may have been avoided with an E-mail or a call

Repeat Chorus (x2)

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