I always love finding a Michael Franks' song I've never listened before... <3

A long edit of on of the best instrumental soul musician, originally released on motown.



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Lyrics inspired by a segment of Mayakovski's work "A cloud in trousers".

[Verse 1]
Your thought —
Sodden, heavy, dragging through the brain,
A bloated lackey on a greasy couch.
With my heart in bloody tatters
I’ll mock it once again —
Ruthless, relentless,
Till contempt burns out.

[Chorus]
There is no soft old kindness in me,
No gray hairs in my soul.
I shake the world with my voice,
Laughing as I pass you by —
Sharp-eyed, defiant,
Twenty-two-years-old.

[Verse 2]
Gentle souls —
You play your love on violins.
The rough ones beat it out on drums.
But can you turn yourselves inside out like I can,
Become nothing but two trembling lips
Burning in the dark?

[Chorus]
There is no soft old kindness in me,
No gray hairs in my soul.
I shake the world with my voice,
Laughing as I pass you by —
Sharp-eyed, defiant,
Twenty-two-years-old.

[Bridge]
Come and learn —
You angelic bureaucrats,
Step out of your cambric rooms.
You who leaf your lips
Like cooks turning pages
In their recipe books.

[Verse 3]
If you wish —
I’ll rage on raw meat like a vandal,
Or shift into sunrise colors.
If you wish —
I’ll grow gentle, irreproachable,
Not a man —
But a cloud in trousers.

[Outro]
Between fury and tenderness
I rise, dissolve, return —
A storm fading into vapor,
A vow thinning into air,
Not a man,
But a cloud in trousers.

A cloud in trousers

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You're My Music - Brian Culbertson ft. Noel Gourdin Cover

"It's Friday Night" is the official theme song of "The Hang with Brian Culbertson" which streams live on Facebook every Friday night at 5pm PT/8pm ET with an encore on YouTube afterwards in full 1080p HD!

All vocals and instruments by Brian Culbertson.
Written, produced, engineered, and mixed by Brian Culbertson for BCM Entertainment, Inc. Published by BCME Music. All Rights Reserved.

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