Joni Mitchell ( I'm breathing heavier)

Joni Mitchell ( I'm breathing heavier)

I wanna be unforgiven
and know my future is certain
like Joan of arc

I wanna be a crusader - a masquerader
but I'm just a conspirator - manipulator
contemplator - a master masturbator

like english Bob - the assassinator
a killer - a thief - a bank robber
just like De Niro in heat
I wouldn't be a cheat

and go off to Hawaii - where it's hot
never been there before but I like it a lot
clear my nostrils with steam from that pot
my love tied in a not

to be is the question
I wanna be Shakespeare
and grow a beard
like Rueben Blades - and sing on stage with Lou Reed
and fuck Nico

or to be the cop out on the tiles
not to have piles - like Carrington - a teddy bear

bald but lucky to be alive though
and Dylan oh Dylan - can I say more
I wanna be Rueben Carter on the run - a hurricane - refugee
begging down on my knees
but I don't want to keep score

I wanna be prostrate - a prostitute - a hooker - a call girl
in a dirty subway stall - scraping the glass out of my feet
I'm die hard can you feel the beat
feel the beat of a funky drummer
a cymbal a symbol
I wanna be religious - religion - to get back to it
like a crucifix

I wanna be Ty Cobb a racist pig
be John Henry Malcolm X and Kennedy
and "die on a sunny day"
feel like some Jesus and Mary chain
hear that train - dance in the rain - yeah

I wanna be Gene Kelly - Fred Astaire
I want the world to care
have my obituary on the front page
with mourner's pictures inside
oh Diane - oh Diane

oh to be king and queen - to be oh so mean
and what about going on and on four Miles - on a Coltrane
I wanna be Charlie Parker
and fly off the handle like notes - into smoke filled heroin halls
the roaring soaring 20's 30's 40's 50's 60's 70's 80's 90's
are we all zero's in the year 2000

I wanna be a doctor - and have a god complex
cause I need a fix - I'm going down
you see mother superior she left town
left me to flex - my intuition
an invasion - wanna be the green man
a Rosewell Smurf - a Woody Woodpecker - Willie Wonka

all the sexual overtones - undertones of the Brady Bunch
be the perfect family on TV
the Leave it to Beaver
I'm breathing heavier
hi ho hi ho - it's off to work I go
to a go-go dancer's delight
refuse - defuse - feel confused - about who I'm supposed to be
can I have another hero please
a Superman - super duper new and improved plan

well he yo mud our comprehension

I wanna be a super model
stay in the shower all day
yeah I'm a pervert - need to convert
but I'm no introvert

oh - classification - multiplication
this is all way to complicated - need that education

I wanna be a revolutionary - mind bender - think tank ender - friendship blender
I wanna be sorry - and ask for forgiveness - but again I wanna be unforgiven

like that Jerry Spinger show
still entertainment though
and fuck the rain king - I wanna be the snow king
so I can cancel school - be the super pretend I did
so I can make the rules - break the rules - yes this my rouse

I wanna have the right to choose - have power mad blues
and be the freedom man

I wanna be a woman - so I can be multi orgasmic
but I'd have to give them to myself

I wanna be understanding - but still standing
in standing room only - I wanna sulk
in knee deep water - wanna be shallow
find someone to fly off with - like a swallow
into that blue night sky air - I'm breathing heavier

I wanna be skinny - got the skinny - get a skinned knee
but I'm fat - wanna be phat - imagine that
I wanna be alone - only when I want too
I need a girlfriend - a friend - but not A. Friend or so the story goes

I wanna be in rows - like Twain - Dickens and Salinger
all rolled into one - so roll up for the flop - pancake breakfast
two for one shop till you drop - motto of our day
I got to get paid

I wanna get up and get into it - get involved
say I'm black and I'm proud - in a cold sweat
yell out mother popcorn - please please please
I wanna be bewildered - and go crazy
Cause – baby you’re right - I don't mind being the prisoner of love - tonight

I wanna be Flo and say kiss my grits
in a man's world - I'll be a super bad sex machine
and I'll keep talking loud and saying nothing

about greed - cause greed is good
wanna be Michael Douglas in the Wall Street hood
and meet De vito - so we can dance and sing
all about our Da Feet Toes - lime item vetos

be a soccer player for primal scream - and let out some steam
wanna yell out goal!


I wanna be bad - wanna be good - wanna be Harry Hood
be a cartoon Colombo - move to Columbia - join a drug cartel
get on Miami Vice - wear a white jacket
go collect the insane - like bubble gum cards
ain't I a card - bored stiff are you

time to laugh it up
be Bugs Bunny - Daffy Duck
Barry Manilow - Boris Karlof - the Mummy - be scary
say careful with that axe Eugene -
Tommy can you hear me - Tommy Tommy Tom Waits
I wanna be a Pinball Wizard - Gandolf - lug wrench
I wanna be a wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
and Estimated Profit

write a movie - Titanic sounds good
T2 - sequels suck - exception to the rules
what about me I'm stuck in the tree
cat house - hot tin roof - rusted - B52 - UB40 - 9 - #9 - #9 - blew my mind

I wanna be Edgar Allen Poe - and pole vault my success
underground - above ground - sound as a pound
yeah - baby spice - I wanna throw up - regurgitate some more
make this go on like a bad attempt at Desolation - road to nowhere – Burning Down the House - paint is a chip of the old block by block - reach pier 62

I wanna be Syd - Syd hopes to trip his life away
Syd hopes to work in the market place someday

why is there a market place in my father's house
home is a home
be a door to door salesman
selling how to burn books
only on video - for 3 easy lifetime - payments - of a $1.95 plus - $669.99 shipping and handling the remote like its gold dust woman

I wanna be a joke that everyone forgets the punch line to
do another line you fool - your nose is bleeding

then there's no one left to be
I wanna be me - but I can't - there's to much at risk
I wanna be Joni Mitchell's guitar strings
I wanna sing