BEFORE YOU (I SWEAR I WAS A MESS)(by Papushka)

{a song about your life going from zero to hero, from not-a-damn-thing-going-on to life-of-the-global-party, superstar -- because somebody [or some little ones] comes along suddenly, loving you, and lifting you up}

(HOOK) I SWEAR I WAS A MESS BEFORE YOU /

I NEVER DID MY BEST BEFORE YOU /

THE WORLD HAD GIVEN UP BEFORE YOU /

AND I HAD NEVER LOVED LIKE I LOVE YOU

Everything I touch now / turns to gold / The people love me from coast to coast / But not long ago / it wasn't so / Every hand I played I had to fold / I talked the talk / I never walked / Everything I planned somehow got stuck / Wen you came around it lit me up / Now my every word is triple-A stock!

(HOOK) I SWEAR I WAS A MESS BEFORE YOU / I NEVER DID MY BEST BEFORE YOU / THE WORLD HAD GIVEN UP BEFORE YOU / AND I HAD

__NEVER LOVED LIKE I LOVE YOU

In the mornings when I woke up / All I did was sit with my coffee cup / Play a game or two or maybe more / I swear I was a mess before /

(HOOK) I SWEAR I WAS A MESS BEFORE YOU / I NEVER DID MY BEST BEFORE YOU...

© 2011, Nkengafac Kole-Kole Ajua Alemanji

Words&Music by: Papushka

Recording, Engineering and Production: Papushka at Uncle Dickson Studios, Northern VA

Keyboard from AjamSonic.com