Gaboma - L'Oiseau Rare

Baby (baby) You've been so distant from me lately (lately) And lately (and lately) Don't even want to call you baby (baby) Saw us getting older (older) Burning toast in the toaster My ambitions were too high (high) Waiting up for you upstairs (upstairs) Why you act like I'm not there? Baby, right now it feels like It feels like you don't care Oh, why don't you recognize I'm so rare? Always there You don't do the same for me That's not fair I don't have it all I'm not claiming to But I know that I'm special (special) Yeah And I'll bet there's somebody else out there To tell me I'm rare To make me feel rare Baby (baby) Don't make me count up all the reasons To stay with you No reason (no reason) Why you and I are not succeeding Ah-ah (mmm, ah, ah) Saw us getting older (older) Burning toast in the toaster (ah-huh) My ambitions were too high (too high) Waiting up for you upstairs (upstairs) Why you act like I'm not there? (Ah-huh) Baby, right now it feels like (What?) It feels like you don't care Oh, why don't you recognize I'm so rare? (I'm so rare) Always there You don't do the same for me That's not fair I don't have it all I'm not claiming to But I know that I'm special (special) Yeah And I'll bet there's somebody else out there To tell me I'm rare To make me feel rare (yeah, yeah) I'm not gonna beg for you I'm not gonna let you make me cry (ah, nah, nah, make me cry) Not getting enough from you (no-oh) Didn't you know I'm hard to find? (Hard to find) Saw us getting older Burning toast in the toaster My ambitions were too high (too high) Waiting up for you upstairs Why you act like I'm not there? Baby, right now it feels like It feels like you don't care (you don't care) Why don't you recognize I'm so rare? (So rare) I'm always there You don't do the same for me That's (that's) Not (not) Fair I don't have it all (I don't have it all) I'm not claiming to (I'm not claiming to) I know that I'm special (special) Yeah And I'll bet there's somebody else out there To tell me I'm rare To make me feel rare (Ooh, yeah) So rare (Rare) (Rare)

Born in a log cabin in the back woods The back woods of Mississippi She drank moonshine, chewed tobacco Raised 13 children all by herself Never looked much like a lady You see she was too busy providin' to raisin' her babies Spend her evenings sitting in a rockin' chair Never had much o' nothin but was always willin' to share Talking 'bout ma, talkin' 'bout ma Yeah, yeah, yeah, talking 'bout my ma Talkin' 'bout ma Every once in awhile when ma would get depressed She'd go to the cabinet and get paw's guitar Sit herself down in the rockin' chair Start strummin' and hummin', ha ha, yeah That was ma's way of lettin' off steam In plan old English you could see That ma was doin' her thing Every once in awhile she'd shout, "Let it all hang out" Oow talkin' 'bout ma, talking 'bout ma Yeah, yeah, yeah, talking 'bout ma Talking 'bout ma