richard cortez - the next best thing (live @ karnival's sideshow wednesdays)

i met you through a friend
that's
the beginning of the end
of
every story
i've ever told about love
but you're different
you hold me through the night
but you don't say a word
and that's alright
cause you make me breakfast
french toast and scrambled eggs
and you fix my coffee
then you smoke your cigarette

and this isn't love
but it's the next best thing
and i just can't get enough
and i know now
yeah, i know now
just how happy i could be
being free
being free

our sex is like a song
and i play it on repeat
and all day i sing along
and tap my foot to the beat
cause you keep me on my toes
i keep you satisfied
where we're headed no one knows
we're just along for the ride
so let it right, yeah let it ride

but this isn't love
but it's the next best thing
and i just can't get enough
and i know now
yeah, i know now
just how happy i can be
being free
being free

what about all those things i said i wanted
what about all that wasted time
i've been chasing boys for so long
and writing all those unrequited love songs
without reason
without rhyme

i met you through a friend
that's
the beginning of the end
that's the beginning of the end
that's the beginning of
the end

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• rock
• guitar
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• pop
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• difranco

[Difrancoism18]

I love the fact that I wasn't the only one singing along to that...it's a great song.  MUAH!

[rickydickypants]

<333333

[mishalmooremusic]

um...do I hear people singing along??

:)

so proud of you ;)

[rickydickypants]

yes. groupies. you know how it is. all i can say is oh lawd. :)

[BoBBySCoPe]

love the lyrics. great song! :)

[rickydickypants]

thank you so much! gosh, i feel so loved tonight. and blessed. thank you! -rec

[rickydickypants]

shh. our friendship transcends youtube comments. thanks for the compliments but... just send me another good book in the mail and we'll call it even. i love you more than all the words in every novel. -rec

[deityofcereals]

Nice guitar!

And that song is growing more and more on me.