Something Special - De-Phazz, 2001

 
 

If there’s no chance to reach you
No bridge, no boat, no stones
Then I would swim the waters
Just like Brian Jones
If I would ever lose you
To someone else one day
I shall be diplomatic
Just like Cassius Clay

Cause you’re so special
Cause you’re so special
Just like anybody else

You don’t need to worry
Just rely on me
I forever will be faithful
Like Lady Chatterley
If there’s a need to tease you
As a chance to make you stay
I’m gonna, I’m gonna be your wild one
Just like Doris Day

Cause you’re so special
Just like anybody else
Cause you’re so special
Just like anybody else

You’re my everyday sensation
You’re my heaven, you’re my hell
Like a roller-coaster ride
We can make it to the bell
A perfect combination
Like the seashore and the shells

Cause you’re something special, babe
Just like anybody else
Cause you’re so special (So incredible)
Just like anybody else (Unbelievable)
Cause you’re so special (So deceivable)
Just like anybody else.

Cause you’re so special (So impossible)
Just like anybody else (So incredible)
Cause you’re so special (Unbelievable)
Just like anybody else (So deceivable)

Cause you’re so special
Just like anybody else
Cause you’re so special

You don’t need to worry
Cause you’re so special
Just rely on me
Just like anybody else

Cause you’re so special
Just like anybody else
Faithful, like Lady Chatterley

 
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De-Phazz is a constantly changing project, the brain-child of German Pit Baumgartner. Using sampling techniques, Baumgartner uses various artists for each new album. The titles are quite intriguing: Godsdog, Daily Lama, Natural Fake and Death By Chocolate. Variously described as downtempo, jazzy and "trip-hop", De-Phazz seems aimed at the downtown Club goer.

The lyrics to Something Special are actually quite amusing. The song's entire premise is that the subject is, well - special. But that line is always followed up with "Just like anybody else". The sarcastic references to past celerity icons, Brian Jones (Rolling Stone who drowned in his swimming pool), Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) and Doris Day are intriguing enough, but Lady Chatterley is the central character in a D. H. Lawrence novel about a woman who cheats on her disabled husband...

But I can't stop singing it to myself.