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With all the food rules, it can feel like our
significant others (among other others) are keeping us in cuisine
jail. And who better to express that than
a carnivorous hunter, wondering if "dinner" is crumbled
sheetrock?
| FOR ONCE
IN MY LIFE |
FOR
ONCE IN MY BOWL |
FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE
I have
someone who needs me
Someone I needed so long
For once unafraid
I can go where life leads me
And somehow I know I’ll be strong
For once I can touch
What my heart used to
dream of
Long before I knew
someone warm like
you
Would make my dreams come true
FOR
ONCE IN MY LIFE
I won’t let sorrow hurt me
Not
like it’s hurt me before, oh
For once I have something
I know won't desert me
‘Cause I’m not alone
anymore
For once I can say
This is mine, you can’t
take it
Long as I know I’ve got love
I can make it
FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE
I’ve got someone who needs me
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FOR
ONCE IN MY BOWL,
I'd like
something organic.
This crud here is fat-free,
of course;
And some super-model,
bulimic and
manic
Might love it--I'd rather have . . .
horse.
This looks like some junior
high
school science project--
That got an
incomplete.
The word out on the street
Is--this
stuff ain't safe to eat.
Tofu or not tofu --
if that's the question,
You've got this cat's
answer for sure:
Eating the unknown
upsets my
digestion;
It's poison--this excess
of pure.
So please, won't you
cut
all the crap and the kibble?
Toss me a scrap
-- but do not
make me nibble.
FOR
ONCE IN MY BOWL:
Give
me something that looks whole.
Oh, I know you mean well,
but hey, it's
amazing!
Tell me--did this grow on some heath?
Do you think I'm the type
gets a kick out
of grazing?
Have you had a look at my teeth?
Now, really, this comes
from some lab
in New
Jersey,
Where a bunch of white-coat geeks
Worked for weeks and
weeks
To make fake beef
from...leeks.
FOR ONCE IN MY
BOWL,
won't you put something down here
That's starkly
and nakedly food?
Something that says, hey,
come
on, go to town here;
Something that's juicy
and--crude.
Ah,
cut me some slack;
give me back what I dream
of--
The stuff with the flavor and savor
and
steam of
some cuisine with soul--
JUST
ONE TIME IN MY BOWL!
[ Etc. . . .
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Lyrics above
copyright 2003 Brad
Burg
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