Barnaby Bright

[“Just the Same” by Barnaby Bright]

And I’m the kind of girl your parents warned you of

I wish I could hold a steady job like I can love

And I swear sometimes I feel like I could drown

At the thought of settling down

Like every other good girl does

But you still love me when push comes to shove

And I pinch myself every day

Still can’t believe it, when I hear it, hear you say

Oh thank God you were born this way

I like you just how you came

Oh thank God you were born this way

‘Cause you and I, we’re just the same

[gentle acoustic guitar music]

And I’ve got a way of winning every time we fight

I can’t admit it, but you’re almost always right

And bless my bleeding heart and all its hurts and holes

That make me who you know

This stubborn soul here at your side

Boy you must love me to let so much slide

And I pinch myself every day

Still can’t believe it, when I hear it, hear you say

Oh thank God you were born this way

I like you just how you came

Oh thank God you were born this way

‘Cause you and I, we’re just the same

When somebody knows you, when somebody needs you

When somebody loves you in spite of you

Oh thank God you were born this way

‘Cause I like you just how you came

Oh thank God you were born this way

‘Cause you and I, we’re just the same

‘Cause you and I, we’re just the same

‘Cause you and I, we’re just the same

[audience applauding and cheering]

[“Here I Am” by Barnaby Bright]

[upbeat folk music]

I went out to the fortune teller

On the corner of town

I said, help me find my purpose

And I laid my money down

She said, love, love hold your tongue

You got time and too much fire in your lungs

I said, but who will change the courses

Of the earth and wind and sea?

Seems no one else is trying

So why the hell not me?

And I left her tiny room

With my tail between my legs

I left with no more wisdom than I had before I came

And I looked up to the heavens

And I pleaded with the sky

I’m small and I’m tired and I’m hopeless

But I’m here, world

Oh I’m here, world

Here am I

Ooh ooh, oh oh oh

I walked by the old woman

Who begs along my street

I passed her many times

And never once our eyes did meet

But today I slowed my pace and looked her way

The woman so many have ignored

And I said, I’m very sorry

That I never stopped to say

How are you this morning?

It’s a very lovely day

And her eyes grew rather wide

And her mouth turned up to smile

She took a few steps forward and she said

Why, thank you child

Most days I feel unseen

Forgotten and unclean

But I’ve lived and I’ve learned and I’m trying

And I’m here world

Oh I’m here world

Here am I

Ooh ooh, oh oh

Oh yeah yeah

Ooh ooh yeah

Ooh ooh

Ooh ooh

I sat down at the table with a relative long lost

I dread this every time and smiled

Although that’s what I thought

But her words pierced a hole in my heart

She said honey, when did all this fighting start

You can stay right there on your side

And I’ll stay right here on mine

None of us is budging

No one’s changing no one’s mind

I know we can’t agree on almost everything

But we’re flesh and we’re blood and we’re human

So much more the same than we are different

To survive like we know what the hell we’re doing

Here I am world, hear am I

Here I am world, hear am I

Here I am, oh here I am, oh here I am

Here I am, oh here I am, oh here I am

Here I am, oh here I am, oh here I am, whoo

Here I am, oh here I am, oh here am I

[audience applauding and cheering]

Thank you so much, we’re Barnaby Bright. Thank you, Andy. Thank you, Mile of Music, we love you.