Monologue/(They Long To Be) Close To You

Hello, hello, how are you?

I wonder if I can borrow

About ten minutes of your time

You know how it is when you feel all alone

You feel like you gotta talk to somebody

I wanna talk to you

Listen to me

Sittin' here, sippin' on a glass of wine

And I'm trying my best not to lose my mind (Not to lose my mind)

You know, thinkin' about the word, ha, "commercial"

That's a funny, funny, funny word

You know, what's funnier than that?

When show people use it

You know what I'm talking about, like, uh

Record companies

Presidents, vice presidents, producers

And a little engineer

But you know what? I feel down in my heart

I don't care what it is

If I can get into it, it's commercial enough for me

But anyway, I remember a little while back

I walked into a recording studio with just me and my guitar

Ha

I remember startin' out on a song

Sort of went somethin' like this

Well, it had the same melody anyway

The head man called in the president, vice president

And just one of his producers, huh

And an engineer (And an engineer)

You know, they all sit around with their heads dropped down

While I was trying to get over, huh

You could hear a pin fall

I know you all know what I'm talkin' about

And I'm still there trying to get over

But anyway, as I got down to doing my thing

Or should I say, doing the best that I could

I'll never forget what they told me

One of the guys got up and said

"I like you, and I ain't saying that you can't sing"

But as they all began to leave the conference table

They kept on saying, "Watch, you're not commercial"

Commercial, commercial

No, you're not commercial, oh

So I went on out

Or should I say, I sold out

But like I said before, music is music

That's how it is

That's the way it is

Well, I don't change my style

Because I still have the same heart

But just like the man said

He said, "Bobby, it's gotta be funky"

Ooh-ooh, oh yeah

I came back and now I wanna sing

Something that I wanna sing

A little song that says, uh

It says, uh

Why do birds suddenly appear

Every time you're near?

Just like me, they long to be

Close to you, yeah

Why do stars fall down from the sky

Every time you walk by?

Just like me, can't you see

They just wanna be close to you

Yeah, listen to me

On the day that you were born

Angels got together and decided

To create a dream come true

So, they sprinkled moon dust in your hair

Of gold and star-light in your eyes

Of blue, ooh, oh-woah

That is why all the guys in town follow you

Follow you around

Follow you around, follow you around?

Just like me, they just wanna be close to you

Well, why do stars fall down from the sky

Every time you walk by? Yeah

It's just like me, they just wanna be

A little bit closer to you, I know, I know

On the day that you were born

The angels got together and decided

To create a dream come true

So they sprinkled moon dust in your hair

And I see rainbows when I look at you, oh, oh

That is why all the guys in town follow you

You around?

Just like me, they long to be closer to you

I think I got a reason to say oh, oh

I wanna be closer to you

Let me say it one more time, one more time

I'll go anywhere you want me to go

Buy you anything that you want me to buy

But oh baby, ah yeah baby

I gotta, I gotta get a little closer to you

Oh, oh, yes sir (Close to you)

Sometimes I wake up all night long

Knowing that my love is so far away from home