When I considered writing about this youthful obsession I thought that would be the dumbest song in the world. Which seemed a perfect place to start.
This funny, charming, charismatic and narcissistic guy who had flunked out of college but not left cultivated up-and-comers in my college singing group as a means of maintaining currency. He love-bombed me with attention and physical affection, a weird middle ground between platonic and sexual that is aka cock-teasing. This was easier for a man to do to another man at the time. A love note I found from a previous victim made me realize I wasnt the first.
This is the dumbest song in the world
Cause its a song about loving you
And I gotta be
THE DUMBEST MAN IN THE WORLD
To love you
Now theres a
Lot of dumb men in the world
But Im the
Dumb man who loves you
And I gotta be
THE DUMBEST MAN IN THE WORLD
To love you
How many times
Did I rush to throw my suit bag down
Just to sleep next to you?
Who better than you
To put my arm around
You said you loved it too
Until that note I found
About this weird middle ground
Made me think Is this just
Something you do?
Some kind of odd routine
No one could ever say was mean
Cause after all
How dare we lust after you?
Thats why
This is the dumbest song in the world
Cause its a song about loving you
And I gotta be
THE DUMBEST MAN IN THE WORLD
To love you
Now theres a
Lot of dumb men in the world
But Im the
Dumb man who loves you
And I gotta be
THE DUMBEST MAN IN THE WORLD
To love you
That winter night
When you opened up your heart to me
I could never forget
Your dream that I
Tried to live turned out to be
A calamitous bet
And did you know Id fall
And did it matter at all
If our deal was one
Id surely regret?
You meant the world to me
But I could never be
More than the bari
In your stupid quartetthats why
This is the dumbest song
I gotta make it a song
Cause who cares about
A one-sided love gone wrong?
Theyll say you should have known
And simply left it alone
And youre playing the fool
To be so cut to the bone
But they could never see
The heart you opened to me
And it shines above the torment
And the cruelty, so Im
THE DUMBEST MAN IN THE WORLD
To love you
But I do