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If You Want It To Be

from The Benny O Flow Show by Benny Oyama

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We live in the beautiful multiplicity of perspectives.

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The grass can be blue and the sky can be green
If you want it to be
The fake can be real and the meal can be free
If you want it to be
The water is wine and the wine is divine
If you want it to be
The girls can be boys and the boys can be toys
If you know what I mean
And I can be you, and you can be me
If you want it to be

If you want it to be
Take your own liberties
Write your own history
If you want it to be

Well, I hear what you're saying and I hate to insist
But if I want it to be I'll just keep on wanting, wanting
And nothing will change for me, staying the same for me inevitably
The only bluegrass I know is the one they play on banjo
And the sky is turning colors by the hole in the ozone
And girls will be girls, and boys will be boys
quite naturally
And if you were me, well babe, you would see
It takes a lot more than a wish to make an actuality
Well, I want it to be
But thinking rationally
I cannot change history

Your teeth can be false and the false can be true
If you want it to be
The dance can be waltz and the waltz can be danced to a quadruple beat
The pigs they can fly, yes they're flying on by in your aviary
The poor can be rich and the rich can insist on giving more charity
And I can be you, and you can be me
If you want it to be

If you want it to be
Take your own liberties
Write your own history
If you want it to be

The grass can be blue and the sky can be green
[The only bluegrass I know is the one they play on banjo]
The fake can be real and the meal can be free
[You gotta work and work and work just to get a simple meal]
The water is wine and the wine is divine
[Think of all the grapes they had to squeeze to get that vino]
The girls can be boys and the boys can be toys
[Your alchemy is foolish, you're making gold out of alloys]

If you want it to be
Take your own liberties
Write your own history
If you want it to be

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from The Benny O Flow Show, released January 15, 2012
© 2012 Benny Oyama

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Benny Oyama Brooklyn, New York

Benny Oyama is a multicultural Japanese and Jewish singer-songwriter born and raised in New York City. The poetry and harmony of Benny Oyama’s intimate music has been likened to Nick Drake, Caetano Veloso and Simon and Garfunkel. Benny sings with a surprising multitude of voices, carried by subtle and complex guitar work firmly rooted in Brazilian and American Folk traditions. ... more

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