"No Fear Have I" genre: Lounge
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	Recorded 12/3/98 - this live track was captured in an "accidental" mix by Jeff Kaplan at Will's Pub, so the vocals and piano are louder than the backing tracks.
	CD: Alive At Will's   Label: Magic Dolphin Musik Credits: Bing's Not Dead
	Story Behind the Song [Songwriter's note] This song was my signal to take the evening in a totally different direction. Amy Steinberg had assembled a "happening" of artists at Will's Pub including Sosumi, Garden Groove, herself and me--wearing a white bathrobe and nothing else. During this song (and you'll know when) I drop the bathrobe and proceed to play the rest of the song (and the set) completely butt-naked. I've only done it once, but urban legend has it that this takes place at every show. Please! Not-so-incidentally, this tune was written for the great comic and writer Tracy Berna (bitch!) who was last seen penning scripts in Hollywood for Weird Al Yankovic's Saturday morning show (since cancelled!) and not returning e-mails. Instant Karma. For fun, see the annotated lyrics beneath the other set of lyrics. Insight you did not need to know. Lyrics Funny thing happened on the way over here some kind of butterflies what are they doing there? hope knows no road today contentment is the butter on my bread a knock upon the door and you appear all of a sudden, my head is so unclear now and I tremble like a little dog confronted by the sudden thought of his master's passing I touch your skin and it releases me creates a temporary truth like bathing by candlelight I'm warm and awed by your sweet mystery unknowingly you call to me we're at the gates of one man's dream tonight things aren't exactly what they seem alright so I drown myself in his dream and combine it with my own if nothing else, tonight I'll have no fear of being alone no - no fear have I when you're by my side no fear have I when you're by my side no - no fear tonight, it's great being alive with you by my side, no fear have I funny thing happened in the midst of things your eyes set me aflame could've been an absence thought could've been a ghost over me could've been hopeless speculation and all but for one second, I could have beat the times my problems looked like children's nursery rhymes and in that sheltered space, I was the king and someone's President and fear was one more word I didn't know No Fear Have I (The Annotated Version) [Whenever I do this song, I giggle--because I can see the imagery clearly and the inspiration for the song. It sounds deep, but here--you'll get an idea of what's really going on here.] Funny thing happened on the way over here some kind of butterflies what are they doing there? hope knows no road today contentment is the butter on my bread [I'm on my way over to Tracy's. She's a Goddess. We're going on a date, sort of. I'm not good enough for her.] a knock upon the door and you appear all of a sudden, my head is so unclear now and I tremble like a little dog confronted by the sudden thought of his master's passing [Yowsa. Beyond being funny, she's a babe, in an odd sort of way.] I touch your skin and it releases me [I shook her hand!] creates a temporary truth like bathing by candlelight I'm warm and awed by your sweet mystery unknowingly you call to me [She has this way of looking at you, you know what I'm saying.] we're at the gates of one man's dream tonight [We were at Disneyland!] things aren't exactly what they seem alright so I drown myself in his dream and combine it with my own if nothing else, tonight I'll have no fear of being alone no - no fear have I when you're by my side no fear have I when you're by my side no - no fear tonight, it's great being alive with you by my side, no fear have I funny thing happened in the midst of things your eyes set me aflame [Man, it was one of those looks like the one that Nala gave Simba in "The Lion King", you know the look I'm talking about.] could've been an absence thought could've been a ghost over me could've been hopeless speculation and all [She was probably thinking about Sib, her black boyfriend in L.A.] but for one second, I could have beat the times my problems looked like children's nursery rhymes and in that sheltered space, I was the king and someone's President and fear was one more word I didn't know [All it takes is a second to realize a dream, even if it's based on a false sense of worth. However fleeting that is, it resulted in a song and the memory lingers on, oh lord, yeah-yeah-yeah.

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