Song Description

Trying to get a word in edgewise when involved with highly self-involved individuals

Lyrics

Before You Interrupt Me
belfry/watkins

Before you interrupt me
I've got something to say
Before you interrupt me
please let me convey
that I'm here too, as much as you

Before you share your thoughts
on all from soup to nuts
before you theorize
on the if ands or buts
give me a head start
and let me impart

now I don't mind being "Mister Listener"
and I'm enlightened by your point of view
you are brilliant, intense and witty
but let me get a thought in too

Before you go on and on about your career
Before you start another joke can I interfere?
I'm not your "yes man"
that's not how we began

Before you interrupt me
let me state a fact
before you interrupt me
with little or no tact
please hear me out
I've something to tout

you are everything I've ever wanted
a friend, a confident, whom I've adored
but please make some room on that tiny soap box
it's time to be my soundboard
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I wanna to get on a train to anywhere
I wanna dance in the rain without a care
I wanna be known for more than that good old clod
who'd sit across the table and nod-good God!

before you get up to storm out of the place
before you throw your water right up in my face
that's not who we are
we go back too far

before you interrupt me
with some good advice
before you interrupt me
please, for once, think twice
that I'm here too as much as you

I'm here too, as much as you

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