Bethlehem

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Paula Cole

Paula Cole (born April 5, 1968) is an American singer-songwriter. Her single "Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" reached the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 in 1997, and the following year she won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist. more »

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1994

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Pulling on the apron strings looking up 
Standing on the chair to be grown up 
I feel so little, I need my pillow 
I hate the time, I hate the clock 
I want to be a dog or I want to be a rock 

Sunday's pancakes Miss Mary Mack 
Color Polariods show my heart attack 
In my second-hand pants and dusty shoes 
The day that the playground laughed at my shoes 
It's my birthday next week and what I want please 
Is to turn on the heat so the fish won't freeze 
The fish in the tank froze and died last week 
Oh I want to be a dog or I want to be a leaf 

Quarry miners, fishermen 
In my town of Bethlehem 
Picket fences, church at ten 
No star above my Bethlehem 

Now I'm only 16 and I think I have an ulcer 
I'm hiding my sex behind a dirty sweatshirt 
I've lost five pounds these past few days 
Trying to be class president and get straight A's, well, 
Who gives a shit about that anyway? 
I want to be a dog or a lump of clay 

Chorus 

Still I'm tired of standing still 
Tired of living - still 
Everyday I dream of leaving 

Everybody's talking about Becky's bust 
The boys on the basketball team just f*ck 
The same ten girls, who don't know who they are 
They're looking for some comfort in the back of a car 
The six-packs of beer, the locker room jeers 
I don't want to be me, I don't want to be here 

Chorus 

Red brick schoolhouse, dead end dirt roads, daffodils 
No star above my Bethlehem 

I want to be a dog or I want to be a rock 
I don't want to be me, I don't want to be here 
Bethlehem

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