Tried To Be A Man-Rickie Lee Jones

[ti:Tried To Be A Man] [ar:Rickie Lee Jones] [al:The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Tried To Be A Man - Rickie Lee Jones [00:08.87]Well you we don't need no one [00:11.59]Trying to set us straight [00:13.81]I got a red neck in plaid suit [00:16.28]And he's on tv real late [00:18.13] [00:19.48]Balalaikas tolling Sheba plays the flute [00:22.55] [00:23.22]There's communist and capitalists [00:25.86]They all think I'm cute [00:27.74] [00:28.52]You know I'm out of rehab [00:30.74]You know I'm with the band [00:32.40]Anyway I think it's time to say [00:34.82]Exactly what I am [00:36.63] [00:37.47]'Cause I tried to be a man [00:39.85] [00:41.54]But that's what I'm not meant to be [00:44.06] [00:45.63]You know I'm [00:46.67]Tried to be a man [00:48.43] [00:49.46]That's not what I came to be [00:52.36] [00:59.14]Well there's seven years of famine [01:01.82]And seven years of drought [01:04.29]Seven years of Sam [01:05.84]You know what I'm talking about [01:08.00] [01:08.58]And it won't take very long before it's hard to tell [01:13.11]If they're trying to take you back with him [01:15.73]To heaven or to hell [01:17.71] [01:18.74]They make her so pretty [01:20.57]She won't be pretty long [01:22.22]She'll be rising out of the sea of planet Babylon [01:26.69]'Cause she tried to be a man [01:29.80] [01:30.48]That's not what she came to be [01:32.95] [01:35.63]Oh she tried to be a man [01:38.51] [01:39.45]That's not what she came to be [01:43.56] [02:17.08]She's living down on Bronson [02:19.61]She never blinks her eyes [02:21.82]The family in Wisconsin [02:24.12]Look like they're hypnotized [02:26.53]I get a strange sensation [02:28.69]When I lay down in my bed [02:31.07]In fact if you could drop me on the corner [02:33.93]Here instead on planet Babylon [02:37.82]That's where they wrote the book [02:40.06]There's something here about you [02:42.63]Come on and take a look [02:44.24] [02:45.23]You tried to be a man [02:46.91] [02:47.54]But that's not what you came to be [02:50.24] [02:51.53]It says it says it says it says [02:53.98]You tried to be a man [02:56.03] [02:56.71]But that's not what you came to be [03:00.42] [03:02.07]Came to be [03:03.81] [03:06.07]What you came to be [03:08.34] [03:09.90]That's not what you came to be