Real Woman - Frank Foster

No, I'll never understand The criminal mind It's a nice soundtrack For a late night Narrative not so critical My own thoughts are difficult I'm so tired And there's nobody else to call And I'll never understand Why you put up that wall A woman so gifted and intelligent You don't like the way I'm telling it From a distance And I could feel your power When we were singing lines together Real life woman Never my intention To create a legend Talking 'bout a real life woman Every misadventure Is a kind of redemption You're not dressing for a man In your elegant gown Still an incurable romantic Under the lights Like a bird in flight Every single night You bring everyone together Real life woman Never my intention To create a legend Talking 'bout a real life woman Every misadventure Is a kind of redemption Someone hiding, put that image in your mind In the shape of a real life Leave him locked inside Keep him out of sight Never take a chance A love to waste them all Giant creatures wait On the beaches of the Nile It must be good for someone, yeah

I don't buy the lines in magazines That tell me what I've gotta be I don't base my life on a movie screen I don't fit the mold society has planned I don't need to be 19 years old Or starve myself for some weight I'm told Or turn men's heads down that road And I thank God I finally know just who I am I ain't a movie star may never see the view from where they are And this old town may be as far as I'm goin' And what he'll hold tonight in his hands He swears there's so much better than Anything that this old world can show him I'm a real live woman In love with this man I see lyin' here next to me Lost in the way that he's holdin' This real live woman In the arms of a man where I'll fall asleep Knowin' there's nothin' on earth he loves more than This real live woman I work 9-5 and I can't relate To millionaires who somehow fate Has smiled upon and fortune made their Common lives a better place to be And I no longer justify Reasons for the way that I behave I offer no apologies For the things that I believe and say And I like it that way 'Cause I'm a real live woman In love with this man I see lyin' here next to me Lost in the way that he's holdin' This real live woman In the arms of a man where I'll fall asleep Knowin' there's nothin' on earth he loves more than This real live woman

When I open, my eyes I'm drawn in Into dream life Undefined Here worlds arise Each star burns new life into mine When I open, my eyes Each star burns new life into mine (When I open, my eyes) Feel so alive Feel so alive Feel so alive Feel so alive Feel so alive Feel so alive Worlds arise

Hey, this call, this is a little awkward but- I kinda just wanted to call and get it over with Was I never? Was I never enough? Just another Just a lover Oh you always Seem to get me With your disguise Over and over Again and again In a moment You can tear me down Rip me apart Rip me in two Like it's nothing But I can't seem To shake you To let you go Suffocating Here I am waiting For the answer For the day you will open Your heart to To the one right here Won't you let me Won't you let me in? I have been waiting I have been waiting My heart is waiting for For the answer For the day you will open Your heart to To the one right here Won't you let me Won't you let me in? I have been waiting I have been waiting My heart is waiting Was I ever? Was I ever in love? Was it real? What do I feel? Did you ever? Want the same thing Was it pretend? Over and over Again and again All I wanted Was to have you here? Here in my heart Here by my side To hold me closer But I can't seem to reach you To let you know I'm suffocating Here I am waiting For the answer For the day you will open Your heart to To the one right here Won't you let me Won't you let me in? I have been waiting I have been waiting My heart is waiting for For the answer For the day you will open Your heart to To the one right here Won't you let me Won't you let me in? I have been waiting I have been waiting My heart is waiting For you to let me in For you to let me in Ooh Just open your heart, open your heart Ooh My heart is waiting for you to let me in Things haven't really been working out as well between us And I think it's just time for both of us to kind of just move forward