LL Cool J ain't got shit on me

manic
7 july 04

I'm the guy who talks a good game
I'm the guy who people don't mess with because they think i can fight, but really I'm just a big pussy
I'm the guy who owns guitars, but doesn't play them

I'm the guy who writes his feelings in a notebook
because they would sound awful said aloud
I'm the guy who wishes he could stand up to the people who
need standing up to, and treat those he loves better
I'm the guy who always has a job but never works

I'm also the guy who loves life so much it sometimes
hurts when I see people suffer
I'm the guy who cries when dogs die
I'm the guy who claims to know

I'm the guy who puts himself down before you can
I'm the guy people assume has a drinking problem
I'm the guy who wants music to be all around me
I'm also the guy who puts x's in sentances to make them more exotic

I'm sometimes the guy who makes you feel good
I'm more frequently the guy who doesn't make you feel
any way at all
I'm the guy you'd feel sorry for, if I wasn't such an asshole

I'm the guy your mother never warned you about
I'm the guy you wish you never met
I'm the guy you almost came close to wanting to kiss, but didn't
I'm the guy who never dreams the same dream twice

I'm the guy who makes it easy
I'm the guy on the sidelines, never trying to play
I'm the guy by the clock winding time in my eyes
and folding nights up to keep in a box in my room

I'm the guy who asked you out once
I'm the guy you turned down
I'm the guy who looks silly on the dance floor
I'm the guy who forgot your birthday after I told you I loved you

I'm the guy who feels he let his family down
I'm the guy who never knew what he was getting into
I'm the guy you smiled at accidentally
I'm the guy who read you that poem he liked

I'm the guy confusing the issue
I'm almost the guy in the coffin
I'm the guy in the passenger seat at the light
singing along without a care in the world
I'm the guy sleeping alone on a Tuesday with a lump in his throat

(expensive taste in souls)