What You Want Me To Be

from Truth by Geoff Burgess

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In the breeze of the underground parking garage I cool down
In the soft hush of the concert crowd I hear you hesitate
In the warm glow of the new moon I see you make your move
In the rise and fall of an empire I feel it is too soon

Baby what you want me to be?
I'm a shooting star
I'm a honey bee
I'm the last leaf standing on the old oak tree
Oh baby what you want me to be?

There's a long list waiting at then end of the road if you get there
Ain't it funny how you rest in the darkness of the restless waterway
In the time that it takes for the words to fade you've said it all
So the phone on the hook is still ringing from the day you made that call

Baby what you want me to be?
I'm a shooting star
I'm a honey bee
I'm the last leaf standing on the old oak tree
Oh baby what you want me to be?

Well out on the flats there's a cloud of stars hangin' over you
So small in the world but so large a moment for a boy just waking up
The words I never said hung around like vultures for the kill
Then the bones were left so they flew away over valleys over hills

Baby what you want me to be?
I'm a shooting star
I'm a honey bee
I'm the last leaf standing on the old oak tree
Oh baby what you want me to be?

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from Truth, released September 1, 2013

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Geoff Burgess Ottawa, Ontario

Geoff Burgess is a singer-songwriter in Ottawa, Ontario, who writes songs about love, loss, time, and the natural world.

discography

Old Roads

Dec 2021
Press Record and Go

Oct 2018
DNA

Aug 2017
Truth

Sep 2013
Albany

Jan 2012
Patchwork

Jul 2011
Secret Stone

Apr 2003

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