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Straight Guy's Lament

Music and Lyrics by: Zach Zadek

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I was this guy, I met this girl, we hit it off at first glance, ev - 'ry look was filled with mu - tu - al at - trac - tion.

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I'd call her cute, she'd blush and smile, we'd talk for ho - urs u - pon end, it seemed so writ - ten in the stars.

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Her clos - est friend, her favo - rite pal, lived three hou - ses from her, they would go shop - ping and laugh a - bout J - Lo.

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 2 Straight Guy's Lament
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They'd cud -dle up, sing Leg - ally Blonde, had a weird love of pink, her great - est friend in the world.

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Sure their time to - ge - ther was a dis - play, but I did - n't have a sin - gle word to say. 'Cuz I thought he was

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gay, or should I say, I just as - sumed he did - n't swing that way. I ne - ver thought the girl I loved would pull a

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clas - sic dou - ble play. He's sup - psed to be gay, not o - kay, all my ad - van - ces ta - ken a - way,

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 Straight Guy's Lament 3
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may - be it was the signs I was dis - miss - ing, I did - n't see the pic - ture of them kis - sing.

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The time went by from weeks to

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months, each day a bea - con of love, did not seem odd that she could ne - ver get to - ge - ther.

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Still we'd flirt, had sweet pet names, say sweet dreams ev - 'ry night, seemed like fate was meant to be.

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The oth - er guy, the a - fore - men - tioned friend, would hold her hand ev - 'ry day, they'd go to fash - ion shows and

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sleep - ov - ers to - ge - ther. Her pro - file pic was him and her on a mer - ry - go - round,

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with a cap - tion that read May two - thou - sand and nine. Sure her face - book ne - ver said she's sin - gle, that

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gives her no li - cense to in - ter - min - gle. 'Cuz I thought he was gay, or should I say, I just as - sumed

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he did - n't swing that way. I ne - ver thoughtthe girl I loved would pull a clas - sic dou - ble play. He's sup - posed to be

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gay, not o - kay, all my ad - van - ces ta - ken a - way, May - be I was look - ing for an es - cape, still it's

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hard to ig - nore a bunch of sex tapes. Then on May thir - ty - first, at a Star - bucks in the ci - ty, I

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saw them through the win - dow with her dressed up real pret - ty. He leaned ac - ross the ta - ble, no way

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to mis - con - strue, his lips mouthed the dread -ed words, Ba - by I love you. Then with a sin - gle dia - mond

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gay, no mat - ter what I'd say, they'd been to - ge - ther ev - 'ry day. The cute good mor - ning mes-sa - ges had

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sim - ply been one way 'cuz he was-n't gay, just her fi - an - ce, now my pas - sion fa - ded a - way. Then I waved, then she

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smiled, then he waved, you know the gay wave with five fin - gers that goes like this. I left their date and I fin - 'lly

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