Standing Close to You

from The Real Moments by My Boyfriend

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I’m often lazy
And I’ve been unkind
But give me a moment
Some good you might find

You’re rock and roll to me
Ostrich guitar
Won’t you go ahead and swallow me whole and then
Shoot me off someplace far

But if you don’t want me standing close to you
I’ll stand really far away
If you don’t want me standing close to you
I’ll stand a light year away

I’ve been twisting, I’ve been tangling, I’ve been rambling
There’s a devil at the foot of my bed
And he’s tried to kill me at least a dozen times
But you know that I’m already dead

Just like Drag Jesus did
I will rise right out of my grave
When I get on home to you darling
You know I won’t know how to behave

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from The Real Moments, released August 30, 2019
Andres Arciniega: drums
Jon Paul Arciniega: lead vocals, rhythm guitar, handclaps
Vanessa Brown: percussion
Yaryn Choi: harmony and backing vocals
George Doering: rhythm guitar, lead guitar
Morgan Jones IV: electric piano
Bora Lee: handclaps
Scarlett Perry: harmony and backing vocals
Rami Yanni: bass

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“I love My Boyfriend. They’re normal-core mutants from an imaginary 1960s: in which the Beatles took lots of antidepressants that didn't work or an imaginary ’80s in which Jonathan Richman only ever listened to The 5th Dimension and early Philly Soul records.”

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