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Listen to 'Wildchild' featured on our new album 'Portrait', available now.  Download 'Portrait' on iTunes: http://wbr.fm/Portrait

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Check out the lyrics...

VERSE 1
1, 2, 3, 4
IF YOU WANNA BE TONGUE TIED
YOU BETTER KNOW WHERE I HIDE
UNDER THE BLEACHERS
WITH PLEASURE SEEKERS
I GOT YOUR BABY BLUE EYES WIDE
DON’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO
GO ROW YOUR OWN CANOE
LIKE A DRUMMER BOY I RAT TAT TAT
THROUGH ALL YOUR FEEDBACK
I’M AT THE LAUNDROMAT
SINGING FULL BLAST

CHORUS
NEVER GROWING UP
CUZ I DO WHAT I FEEL LIKE
NEVER GROWING UP
I’LL BE YOUNG TIL THE DAY I DIE
I GUESS I’M JUST A WILD CHILD

VERSE 2
THE TAXIS NEVER STOP
I GUESS WE’LL HAVE TO WALK
I’M ALWAYS ACTING UP WHEN THE SUN’S DOWN
THEY GOT ME SCREAMING OUT

BRIDGE
EVER SINCE I WAS A KID I BEEN GETTING IN TROUBLE
EVER SINCE I WAS A KID I BEEN GETTING MY HUSTLE ON

Portrait

Wild Child

Background and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/05/16/wait-galway-kinnell/

POEM TEXT

Galway Kinnell reads "Wait"

I gave the brilliant Ben Folds a copy of 'Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space' by astrophysicist Janna Levin (http://eepurl.com/bYXz6z), highlighted a passage for him, and he set it to song.

The real magic begins at 5:03, but it's marvelous to witness the orchestral arrangement improvisation building up to it, so I've kept that in. 

Recorded at the Beacon Theater in New York City, May 4, 2016.

More about the book: 
http://brainpickings.org/2016/04/25/black-hole-blues-janna-levin-joseph-weber/
http://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/723481944512696320

More of Ben Folds's musical genius: http://benfolds.com/

On Twitter: @BenFolds, @JannaLevin

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Natalie Bejzak Hartman