Monologue / (They Long To Be) Close To You

Hello, hello, how are you?

I wonder if I can borrow

About ten minutes of your time

You know how it is when you feel all alone

You feel like you gotta talk to somebody

I wanna talk to you

Listen to me

Sittin' here, sippin' on a glass of wine

And I'm trying my best not to lose my mind

Not to lose my mind

You know, thinkin' about the word, huh, "commercial"

That's a funny, funny, funny word

You know, it's funnier than that!

When show people use it

You know what I'm talking about like a

Record companies, presidents, vice-presidents

Producers

And a little engineer

But you know what? I feel down in my heart

I don't care what it is

If I can get into it, it's commercial enough for me

But anyway, I remember just a little while back

I walked into a recording studio with just

Me and my guitar

Ha!

I remember startin' out on a song

Sort of went somethin' like this

Well, it had the same melody anyway

The head man called in

President, vice-president

And just one of his producers

And an engineer and an engineer

You know, they all sit around

With their hairs dropped down

While I was trying to get over

You could hear a pin fall

Ha! I know you all know what I'm talkin' about

And I'm still trying to get over

But anyway, as I got down to doing my thing

Or should I say, doing the best that I could

I'll never forget what they told me

One of the guys got up and said

"I like you, and I ain't saying that you can't sing"

But as they all began to leave the conference table

They kept on saying: "watch, you're not commercial

Commercial, commercial

No, you're not commercial!

So I went on out

Or should I say, I "sold out"!

But like I said before, music is music

That's how it is, that's the way it is

Well I don't change my style

Because I still have the same heart

But just like the man said

He said: "bobby it's gotta be funky"

Oooh, ooh, yeah

I came back and now I wanna sing

Something that I wanna sing

A little song that says... Uh

It says... Uhh

Why do birds suddenly appear

Everytime you're near

Just like me

They long to be

Close to you, yeah

Why do stars fall down from the sky

Everytime you walk by

Just like me, can't you see

That I just wanna be close to you

Yeah, listen to me

On the day that you were born

Angels got together and

Decided to create a dream come true

So, they sprinkled moon dust in your hair

Of gold, and star-light in your eyes

Of blue!

Ohhhhhh!!!!

That is why all the guys in town follow you

Follow you around

Follow you around, follow you around

Just like me, they just wanna be close to you

Well, why do stars fall down from the sky

Everytime you walk by

It's just like me

They just wanna be a little closer to you, I know, I know

On the day that you are born

The angels got together and decided

To create a dream come true

Oh... So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair

And I see rainbows when I look at you, oh, oh

That is why all the guys in town follow you

You around

Just like me, they long to be closer to you

I think I got a reason to say oh, oh, oh, oh, oh

I wanna be closer to you

Let me say it one more time, one more time

I'ii go anywhere you want me to go

Buy you anything that you want me to buy

But oh baby, ah baby!

I gotta! I gotta get a little closer to you

Oh, oh, yes sir, close

Sometimes I wake up all night long

Knowing that my love is so far away