It's Only Me (The Wizard of Magicland)

Barenaked Ladies

Speaking as a guy who's really got it going on
It's only natural
It's only me

Take it from a fella
Who's been round the block so many times
He knows the only parking spot that's free
It's only me

You can say I've tried everything
I'd save on my wedding ring
Who knows me, half as well as me?

I'm not antisocial and it's nothing that's reproachful
It's just natural
It's only me

I can't think of anybody else
I'd rather spend some one on one time with
It's not that hard to see
It's only me

I me, me in monogamy
I'm not asking a lot of me
I give me r e s p e c t

And if your heart is broken
You can just do, what you do best
You can just do what you do
When your heart is broken

Trust in the one who will love you
Never put others above you
I thought I was using me to get to you
But this is too unnatural
It's only me

They say you'll never love another, till you love yourself
Well brother, I'm in love with everyone I see
It's only me

You can say I've tried everything
I'd save on my wedding ring
Who knows me half as well as me?

I me, me in monogamy
I'm not asking a lot of me
I give me r e s p e c t, oh
Oh yeah


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    selfwilledfate, regarding the first comment you made.. "I believe that I truly love myself, and that this feeling has allowed me to love so many other people." .. Have you read Erich Fromm's "The Art of Loving".. He's an established psychoanalyst that maintains that you can't even begin to love others, if you don't love yourself. He says, "...love for and understanding of on'es own self, cannot be separated from respect and love and understanding for another individual. The love for my own self is inseparably connected with the love for any other being." ... I think you made a valid point.

    Sorry for the tangental remark.

    anna118kon April 13, 2002   Link

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