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In the vain of songs about people who think they are cool, but are obviously not, this is something of a classic in my own mind. It’s a characterization built around at least three people I have known, but mostly about one—a choir director.

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Just for a minute
You'll wake up from the spell
Of post-graduate illusions
You learned to spin so well
At the university
Where they taught you how to dwell
In a multi-fractured world
And make it seem less like hell

And just for a minute
You'd gonna earn a little street cred
Act jaded like the black man
At the bar near school where he said
That "life sucks and then your dead"
And you knowingly shook your head
Then returned to music theory class
And practiced being a pin-head

(BRIDGE)
And just for a minute
You're gonna come alive
Not be so dammed contrived
Drop all the school boy jive
just for a minute
You're gonna lose control
And let the whole world know
You got some real soul
But just for a minute

Just for a minute
You're gonna dance like a fool
Snap fingers on the backbeat
Just like back in highschool
To Earth, Wind and Fire
But then you went and you grew
And learned it was more practical
To just pretend to be cool

(instrumental)
(Bridge)

Just for a minute
You'll recapture that smile
You wore way back in pre-school
When you hadn't mastered guile
And manipulating your friends
With your big-time salesman style
Feel some real emotions
And relax for a while...
But just for a minute
Yeah

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from Uncollected Songs, Vol. 2 (2001​-​2005), released August 4, 2020

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Peter Saltzman Chicago, Illinois

Peter Saltzman is a composer, pianist, singer, and songwriter residing somewhere near Chicago. His music has been called "brilliant" by the Chicago Tribune, and "powerful stuff" by the Dallas Morning News.

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