Girls Like Me

from Riding On the Back of the Wind by Carrie Ferguson

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Girls Like Me
© 2009 Words and music by Carrie Ferguson

All my life, since I was a kid
I want the kind of love that sticks to your ribs
But the kind of love that I have to give
Some people call a crime, some people call a sin

And girls like me, like girls
Its just a natural thing in the world
And you can call it a phase but you’ll have a long wait
And it might be time for you to set yourself straight

Some girls like girls, some boys like boys
Some like both, its just a joyful noise
But besides all that it’s a boring debate
Some people love to love, some people love to hate

And girls like me, like girls
Its just a wonderful thing in the world
You can say that its wrong but you’re making a mistake
And it might be time for you to set yourself straight

They say that water conquers stone over time
I know that loves’ a force that can not be denied

And girls like me, like girls
Its just a beautiful thing in the world
Why make a big fuss when we’re doing great?
And I think its time for you to set yourself straight

And girls like me, like girls
It’s just a natural thing in the world
So why waste breath, arguing with fate?
When you still got time to set yourself straight

Cause girls like me, and I like girls
Its just a glorious thing in the world
And you don’t have to participate
But you still got time to set yourself straight

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from Riding On the Back of the Wind, released January 6, 2010
Piano and vocals: Carrie Ferguson
Guitar: Jim Henry
Bass: Mark Schwaber
Drums: JJ O'Connell
Trumpet: Eric Ferguson

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Carrie Ferguson Northampton, Massachusetts

Carrie grew up playing an enormous upright, chocolate-brown piano. It had a darkly booming, slightly furry quality to it, like the weather in her hometown of Arcata on the North Coast of California. Ferguson credits its sonorous voice, combined with the perpetual fog and clamminess as instilling in her the baseline aesthetic of melancholic optimism that permeates her words and music today. ... more

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