Michael Kahn

Just Want To Be

Don’t want to be the end of your procession

Don’t want to meet you at midnight in the square

Don’t want to be your secret obsession

Or the impression you can’t repair

 

Just want to be there

 

Don’t want to be the cause of your promotion

Don’t want to be your stallion or your mare

Don’t want to bring about your demotion

Or challenge your devotion to daily prayer

 

Just want to be there

 

Don’t want to be your knight in armor

Don’t want to be your pillar of stone

Don’t want to be your seductive charmer

Don’t want to talk for hours on the phone

 

Don’t want to be your boss or your assistant

Don’t want to bring you down to deep despair

Don’t want to be cold or distant

Or persistently unfair

 

Just want to be there

 

Don’t want to be the road you should have taken

Don’t want to be that foot upon your stair

Don’t want to be the promise you’ve forsaken

Or the lesson you didn’t prepare

 

Just want to be there