Be Like You

Sitting on my parents carpet watching that old box TV

Right in that second you sparked it

It's like you were singing right to me

Maybe I'd make some friends

They'd for sure like me then, if I looked like you did

With my name up in lights it would all be alright

So I close my eyes and I say

I wanna be like you someday

That'd make my problems float away

If I had what you had, I'd never be sad

I wouldn't ask for anything

Yeah, I wanna be like you someday

I wanna be like you

Now I'm clocking in for the late shift whatever it takes to survive

And I watch you walk in with a watch

On your wrist that's worth more than my life

Then you throw down your card, said, "This one's for the bar"

Tell me what it's like to get that far

Oh, what is your secret?

How's it feel to be treated like a superstar?

I wanna be like you someday

That'd make my problems float away

If I had what you had, I'd never be sad

I wouldn't ask for anything

Yeah, I wanna be like you someday

I wanna be like you

I wanna be like you, I wanna be like you, I wanna be like you

I wanna be like, be like

Going through an old stack of photos I see one of 8-year-old me

She looks so happy her eyes full of dreams if only she could see

She got all that she wanted, but lost her in the process

A tear falls in that moment as I say

I wanna be like you someday

That'd make my problems float away

If I had what you had, I'd never be sad

I wouldn't ask for anything

Yeah, I wanna be like you someday

I wanna be like you