Free Show No Mercy by Bethany Walkers Page B

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    Burr
    Girlfriend, girlfriend, you could be my girlfriend
    You could be my girlfriend until the w-w-world ends
    Make you dance do a spin and a twirl and
    Voice goin crazy on this hook like a whirlwind
    Swaggie
     
    Adam couldn’t stop thinking how beautiful Sophie looked tonight, and how he felt as he danced with her to this particular song.
     
    I’d like to be everything you want
    Hey girl, let me talk to you
     
    If I was your boyfriend, never let you go
    Keep you on my arm girl, you’d never be alone
    I can be a gentleman, anything you want
    If I was your boyfriend, I’d never let you go, I’d never let you go
     
    So give me a chance, ‘cause you’re all I need girl
    Spend a week with your boy I’ll be calling you my girlfriend
    If I was your man (If I was your man), I’d never leave you girl
    I just want to love and treat you right
     
    Sophie could feel herself blushing as they danced and he swayed her to the beat. Everyone was watching them, but for once, she didn’t care. She was completely immersed in her own world thinking of to her, Mitchell.
     
    If I was your boyfriend (boyfriend), never let you go
    Keep you on my arm girl, you’d never be alone (never be alone)
    I can be a gentleman (gentleman), anything you want
    If I was your boyfriend (boyfriend), I’d never let you go, never let you go
     
    Na na na, na na na, na na na
    Yeah girl
    Na na na, na na na, na na na ey
    If I was your boyfriend
    Na na na, na na na, na na na ey
    Na na na, na na na, na na na ey
    If I was your boyfriend
     
    “If I was your boyfriend,” Adam sang the last line, not meaning it for the words to slip out, but they had. Sophie blushed even deeper, and everybody clapped.
     
    It was the end of the party. Sophie and Adam made a big farewell as they left to get to their bus.

 
     
    I met a girl in an office.
    A beautiful girl
    And I fell for her.
    I fell hard.
    Unfortunately, sometimes life gets in the way.
    Life definitely got in my way.
    It got all up in my damn way,
    Life blocked the door with a stack of wooden 2x4's
    nailed together and attached to a fifteen inch concrete wall
    behind a row of solid steel bars, bolted to a titanium frame that
    no matter how hard I shoved against it-
    It
    wouldn't
    budge.
    Sometimes life doesn't budge.
    It just gets all up in your damn way.
    It blocked my plans, my dreams, my desires, my wishes,
    my wants, my needs.
    It blocked out that beautiful girl
    That I fell so hard for.
     
    Life tries to tell you what's best for you
    What should be most important to you
    What should come in first
    Or second
    Or third.
     
    I tried so hard to keep it all organized, alphabetized,
    stacked in chronological order, everything in its perfect space,
    its perfect place.
    I thought that's what life wanted me to do.
    This is what life needed for me to do.
    Right?
    Keep it all in sequence?
     
    Sometimes, life gets in your way.
    It gets all up in your damn way.
    But it doesn't get all up in your damn way because it
    wants you to just give up and let it take control. Life doesn't get
    all up in your damn way because it just wants you to hand it all
    over and be carried along.
    Life wants you to fight it.
    It wants you to grab an axe and hack through the wood.
    It wants you to get a sledgehammer and break through
    the concrete.
    It wants you to grab a torch and burn through the metal
    and steel until you can reach through and grab it.
    Life wants you to grab all the organized, the
    alphabetized, the chronological, the sequenced. It wants you to
    mix it all together,
    stir it up,
    blend it.
     
    Life doesn't want you to let it tell you that your little
    brother should be the only thing that comes first.
    Life doesn't want you to let it tell you that your career
    and your education should be the only thing that comes in
    second.
    And life definitely doesn't want me
    To just let it tell me
    that the girl I met,
    The beautiful, strong, amazing, resilient girl
    That I fell so hard for
    Should only come in