Someone to walk through the sprinklers with And quote our favorite Simpsons lines with Share an ice cream cone with Someone i can trust with the secrets i keep Someone to sing me to sleep Kiss me goodnight Someone to cling tightly to when i feel i'm being sucked away in a vacuum Someone i could wrap myself around like one of those long armed monkey puppets Someone to tell me i'm getting better, not older Someone to help me blow out the candles on my cake Someone who won't get frightened away by my intensity like Miss Muffet's spider Someone who'll play moonlit games of Twister Someone who'll even love all my faults, as that's most of what i have to love Someone to die with laughter with me reading Calvin & Hobbes Someone who'll understand when i don't have time for them Someone who'll remind me why i'm working too hard And extending my energies in more directions than i can handle Someone who thinks i look good in the colors of my aura Someone who i can share dessert with (for both consumption and frollicking) Someone who sends me floating like a balloon by pecking me on the forehead Someone to hop in the shower with me before we've taken off our clothes Someone to exchange ice massages with Someone whose heart will syncronize with mine when the breeze through our hair is just right Someone who'll do all those things when i'm awake

Commentary I just recently unearthed the lyrics to this song as i was going though some old boxes i've had in storage. Most of my original lyric sheets have dates on them though this one didn't but i would place this around 1994 based on the type of stationary it was written on compared with others from that period. I vaguely remember writing it, but i can't remember if this was actually meant to be the song as is or if it was a brainstorm of ideas to be fit together in another draft but given some of my notes on the page, i'm pretty sure that it was intended to be as is (and even if it wasn't, i'm sure i would have been won over by the free flow of consciousness method and would have kept it that way regardless!) I actually cried when i reread this for the first time in years...for the longest time, i've made it a point to shut off the whole part of my mind that allows myself to think of the kind of person i'd want in my life as a partner since i know that i could never have him. Yet, here was a complete outline of all the things i forbid myself to think about for knowledge that dwelling on what i can ultimately never have does nothing but lead to depression. Part of me just wanted to tear the whole page up and burn it and maybe if i didn't like it so much artistically, i would have done so but damn it; i just found it too good to disown it...i like what it says, the structure, several individual lines, how it works as a whole... Of course i'm sure i would have known at the time i wrote this my life would be one where i would never be destined to have a happily ever after with someone else since as is par for the course, the last line puts everything in perspective; the ONLY place such a person can be found that would actually love me in the same way can only be in a dream. So okay, i've "preserved" it (for now); which i'm sure i'll regret later because this is precisely the type of stuff i don't like letting myself think about or remember.

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