BJÖRN JAKOBSSON: SUBSTITUTE
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Channel: Björn Jakobsson · 2017 · Entertainment
music & lyrics: Björn Jakobsson (back in 2005, English lyrics written in 2017) recorded in June - July 2017 at Ealsden Digital Studio Skärholmen from the album "Old Dogs and New Tricks" (Treplektra TREPCD 75) © Treplektra Produktion Oh yeah? He has left you now? Yes, he’s the one to blame. Oh yeah? You deserved better somehow? Well, isn’t that a shame? So you’ve returned to me to lament for awhile You’ve returned to cry in your usual style It’s funny, you never bark up my tree when everything’s as fine as it could be. Oh yes, good that I’m here for you So true, so sweet, so nice Oh yes? You’ll make my sky so blue? That sounds like paradise. But I know what will happen soon again When you two are back together and I’m only a friend A shelter when the monsters will destroy your night That you can just ignore when everything’s all right But I don’t want to be a freakin’ substitute No I don’t want to be a freakin’ substitute When I see you and your dear womanizer My mistakes have made me somewhat wiser And I ain’t gonna be no freakin’ substitute No, I ain’t gonna be no freakin’ substitute So feel free to moan and cry I’m not interested. Bye. Oh yeah, if love strikes you just once You should be over the moon Oh yeah, I’ve been such a dunce An idiot and a loon When the star gets injured it’s the substitute’s chance To run around a bit until the final dance And what passion cannot love raise and quell? Well, one day the sub will ask you to go to hell But I don’t want to be a freakin’ substitute … I may get punished and sentence to a life of solitude When I don’t want to play my worn out role Love’s a glimmering luxury for just a very few and I will never give up my immortal soul. But I don’t want to be a freakin’ substitute No I don’t want to be a freakin’ substitute When I see you and your dear womanizer My mistakes have made me somewhat wiser And I ain’t gonna be no freakin’ substitute No, I ain’t gonna be no freakin’ substitute So feel free to moan and cry I’m not interested. Bye.
