Name: Superficial
Duration: P00H03M15S
Description: Inspired by an overheard phone call

Superficial

from Time In The Trees by Serious Child

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Inspired by an overheard phone call

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She said I’m looking for a boyfriend
It might as well be you
But I’m going to need security
We both know that is true

I won’t spend what’s left of my poor soul
On a pretty boy who’s on the dole
It may be superficial
But it might as well be you

It might as well be you
It might as well be you
It may be superficial
But it might as well be you

You don’t have to be too handsome
I don’t even mind a little fat
But you have to have your own teeth
And the keys to a Mayfair flat

It might as well be you
It might as well be you
It may be superficial
But it might as well be you

In the years since I’ve been dating
Nothing’s really changed
I’m still tracing patterns in my beer
Staring at the carpet stains

She said if we were being honest
The same is true of you
You want a thing of beauty
Who is more than five foot two

You’d rather spend your life alone
Than with a clever girl of sixteen stone
It may be superficial
But it’s what you’re going to do

It might as well be you
It might as well be you
It may be superficial
But it might as well be you

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from Time In The Trees, released March 20, 2020
Words & music by Alan Young

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