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I wrote the chorus to this song when I was in high school, but only got around to writing the verses and bridge about 50 years later, i.e., just before recording it in January 2020. This is a live recording with guitar, vocal, and harmonica.
Words and music by Jonathan Ochshorn
© J. Ochshorn 2020
Verse 1
I hate all questions that presume some cultural identity
Defining who you are in terms of arbitrary norms
Some people are so obsessed with such a dubious ontology
That they become what they dress up as in their uniforms
Chorus
I wish I were a bee
I wish I were a bee
No one would ever ask me
What I wanted to be.
Verse 2
My friend Jean-Paul's apartment is somewhere on the second floor
I think perhaps apartment "B," so down the hall I wander
I'm about to ring the bell but doubt sets in as I approach the door
"2-B or not 2-B" is the question that I ponder
[Chorus]
[Instrumental Chorus]
Bridge
Kanye says everything you're not makes you everything you are
Jean-Paul agrees that it isn't the sum of what you have thus far
But rather the sum of what you don't have or could have that really should prevail
Even if, in principle, all human actions are doomed to fail
Verse 3
I meet Jean-Paul at a café to talk about reality
His friend Pierre is still not there so we order bread and honey
He says that a concrete nothingness is part of a totality
As he leaves me staring at the bill while I run out of money
[Chorus]
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