Tried To Be A Man - Rickie Lee Jones

'Round here we don’t need no one trying to set us straight

Heck, I got a red neck in plaid suit

And he’s on TV real late balalaikas tolling

Sheba plays the flute

There’s a communist and capitalists

They all think I’m cute

You know, I’m out of rehab

You know, I’m with the band

Anyway I think it’s time to say

Exactly what I am

Cause I tried to be a man

But that’s just not meant to be

You know I

Tried to be a man

That’s not what I came to be

Well, there’s seven years of famine

And seven years of drought

Seven years of Sam

And you know what I’m talking about

And it won’t take very long before its hard to tell

If they’re trying to take you back with him

To heaven or to hell

They make her so pretty

She won’t be pretty long

She’ll be rising out of the sea of planet Babylon

Cause she tried to be a man

That’s not what she came to be

She tried to be a man

That’s not what she came to be

She’s living down on Bronson

She never blinks her eyes

The family in Wisconsin

Look like they’re hypnotized

I get a strange sensation

When I lay down in my bed

In fact, if you could drop me on the corner

Here instead on planet Babylon

That’s where they wrote the book

Hey there’s something here about you

Come on and take a look

It says you tried to be a man

But that’s not what you came to be

It says, it says, it says, it says

You tried to be a man

But that’s not what you came to be

Came to be

What you came to be

That’s not what you came to be