{"id":206,"date":"2006-04-06T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T06:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=206"},"modified":"2015-11-01T13:06:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T21:06:06","slug":"tell-it-to-me-like-a-man-tell-it-to-me-in-a-language-that-ill-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2006\/04\/06\/tell-it-to-me-like-a-man-tell-it-to-me-in-a-language-that-ill-understand\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell It to Me Like a Man [Tell It to Me in a Language That I’ll Understand]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tell<\/p>\n

W<\/span>hen I was a young man, it seemed to me that the problem with women was that they just weren’t straightforward enough about their needs. It always seemed to me then that any interaction between the sexes became an interlocking dance of cryptic, even unrecognized protocols and elaborate interpersonal transactions, typically culminating in entirely predictable, and occasionally mutually satisfying outcomes.<\/p>\n

But, when I finally met a woman who approached life and love like a man<\/span> — beautiful, smart, talented, and funny as she was — she scared the living daylights out of me.<\/p>\n

And, looking back, I should have been even more scared.<\/p>\n\n

Tell It to Me in a Language That I’ll Understand<\/p>\n

Tell it to me baby
\nin a language that I’ll understand
\nI don’t speak french italian
\nhollandaise or hindustan
\nyou look like a straight talkin’ woman
\nwhy don’t ya give it to me like a man<\/p>\n

don’t put it between the lines
\nI won’t get the inference
\ndon’t get into that dialectical material
\nlet’s just split the difference
\nWhy don’t ya come right out and say it
\nand then let’s see the evidence
\n\"Tell
\nI know ya got something to say to me doll
\ndon’t bother putting it in words
\nI think I know what you’re thinking
\nonly I think I thought of it first
\nI guess the question is
\nCan we fall in love right now
\nor do we gotta talk all night first?<\/p>\n

(C)1990, TK Major<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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