I'm Straight (Live)
I called this number three
Times already today
But I, I got scared, I put it back in place
I put my phone back in place
I still don't know if I
Should have called up
Look, just tell me why don't you
If I'm out of place
Cause here's your chance to make me feel awkward
And wish that I
Had never even called up this place
I saw you though today
Walk by with hippie Johnny
I had to call up and say how I want to take his place
So this phone call today concerns
Hippie Johnny
He's always stoned, he's never straight
I saw you today, you know, walk by with hippie Johnny
Look, I had to call up and say, I want to take his place
See he's stoned, hippie Johnny
Now get this, I'm straight
And I wanna take his place
Now look, I like him too, I like
Hippie Johnny
But I'm straight
And I want to take his place
I said, I'm straight
I said, I'm straight
I'm proud to say
Well I'm straight
And I wanna take his place
Now I've watched you walk around here
I've watched you meet
These new boyfriends, I know
And you tell how they're deep
Look but, if these guys, if they're really so great
Tell me, why can't they at least take this place and take it straight?
Why always stoned, like hippie Johnny is?
I'm straight and I want to take his place
Oh I'm certainly not stoned, like hippie Johnny is
I'm straight and I want to take his place
I said, I'm straight
I said, I'm straight
I'm
I'm straight and I want to take his place
All right you Modern Lovers what do you say?
(I'm straight!)
Tell the world now
(I'm straight!)
That's it
(I'm straight!)
Yeah I'm straight and I want to take his place
Times already today
But I, I got scared, I put it back in place
I put my phone back in place
I still don't know if I
Should have called up
Look, just tell me why don't you
If I'm out of place
Cause here's your chance to make me feel awkward
And wish that I
Had never even called up this place
I saw you though today
Walk by with hippie Johnny
I had to call up and say how I want to take his place
So this phone call today concerns
Hippie Johnny
He's always stoned, he's never straight
I saw you today, you know, walk by with hippie Johnny
Look, I had to call up and say, I want to take his place
See he's stoned, hippie Johnny
Now get this, I'm straight
And I wanna take his place
Now look, I like him too, I like
Hippie Johnny
But I'm straight
And I want to take his place
I said, I'm straight
I said, I'm straight
I'm proud to say
Well I'm straight
And I wanna take his place
Now I've watched you walk around here
I've watched you meet
These new boyfriends, I know
And you tell how they're deep
Look but, if these guys, if they're really so great
Tell me, why can't they at least take this place and take it straight?
Why always stoned, like hippie Johnny is?
I'm straight and I want to take his place
Oh I'm certainly not stoned, like hippie Johnny is
I'm straight and I want to take his place
I said, I'm straight
I said, I'm straight
I'm
I'm straight and I want to take his place
All right you Modern Lovers what do you say?
(I'm straight!)
Tell the world now
(I'm straight!)
That's it
(I'm straight!)
Yeah I'm straight and I want to take his place
Credits
Writer(s): Jonathan Richman
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Link
Other Album Tracks
- Someone I Care About (Live)
- Dance With Me (Live)
- She Cracked (Live)
- Hospital (Live)
- Womanhood (Live)
- Dignified and Old (Live)
- Girlfriend (Live)
- Foggy Notion (Live)
- Ride On Down the Highway (Live)
- Pablo Picasso (Live)
All Album Tracks: Precise Modern Lovers Order: Live in Boston, 1971 and Berkeley, 1973 >
Altri album
- Rock 'n' Roll With the Modern Lovers (Bonus Track Edition)
- Rock 'n' Roll With the Modern Lovers
- The Modern Lovers
- Precise Modern Lovers Order (Live In Berkeley And Boston)
- Modern Lovers (Live)
- Live
- The Modern Lovers (Reissue)
- The Modern Lovers (Expanded Version)
- Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers (Expanded Edition)
- Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers (Expanded Version)
© 2025 All rights reserved. Rockol.com S.r.l. Website image policy
Rockol
- Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes (“for press use”) by record companies, artist managements and p.r. agencies.
- Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content.
- Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted.
- Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted.
- Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image’s author be unknown at the time of publishing.
Feedback
Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal.