Something Stupid

I know I stand in line, until you think you have the time
To spend an evening with me
And if we go someplace to dance, I know that theres a chance
You wont be leaving with me

And afterwards we drop into a quiet little place
And have a drink or two
And then I go and spoil it all, by saying something stupid
Like: I love you

I can see it in your eyes, that you despise the same old lies
You heard the night before
And though its just a line to you, for me its true
It never seemed so right before

I practice every day to find some clever lines to say
To make the meaning come through
But then I think Ill wait until the evening gets late
And Im alone with you

The time is right your perfume fills my head, the stars get red
And oh the nights so blue
And then I go and spoil it all, by saying something stupid
Like: I love you
(I love you, I love you,...)

Love & Hate

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience,

Contrary to what we usually believe, moments like these, the best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times—although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them. The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile. Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen.
http://www.eyalmaoz.com/trader/

Enemies of Reason

Where is your head during the market day?

1. Are you looking through the rear-view mirror, criticizing your last trade?
2. Are you looking at your profit/loss for the day and filtering trades through that?
3. Are you distracted by people or the phone?
4. Are you thinking about yourself and how well or poorly you've been doing?
5. Are you locked in an opinion of what the market "should" be doing instead of observing what it *is* doing?
6. Are you wanting to get your money back after a loss or hold onto it after a gain?
7. Are you focusing more on yourself or on what markets are doing?
8. Many times, our head just isn't in the game. We can't be focused on performance outcomes and immersed in our performance at the same time.

Consistency is engaging in the right behaviors

AT TIMES, YOU *ARE* THE TRADER YOU WANT TO BECOME. THE KEY TO YOUR DEVELOPMENT IS TO CAPTURE THOSE TIMES AND DO MORE OF THE THINGS THAT DEFINE THE BEST WITHIN YOU.

Solution focused approach

What did we do differently on those successful occasions?

* I have planned the trade well in advance with research; it is not a spontaneous trade, so I've had time to think clearly about what I want to do.

* I have a clear profit target in mind based on research and refuse to waver from that target unless the market takes me out with a predefined stop. I consider myself a person of integrity, so I tell myself that I have to show integrity and loyalty to my trade idea and target;

* I don't follow the position tick for tick. Either the trade will hit my target or it will hit my stop. I make a conscious effort to let go and not micromanage the trade;

* I keep myself calm and clearly focused by purposely getting up from my chair, doing some stretches, breathing deeply, and getting away from the screen. I keep myself in a state that is incompatible with anxiety;

* I rehearse constructive self-talk during the trade. I tell myself that I've done my preparation and established my edge. Any individual trade can go against me, but if I take all the good trades I can, eventually I'll benefit from good odds and a good risk-reward ratio. If I lose money on the trade, I'll figure out why and what that might be telling me about the current market.

All of these steps, taken together, form a template for how I manage to hold onto positions to maximize profits. Now the key is to turn this template into a habit pattern. I want it to become automatic--an internalized part of me.

The anxious state!

Exiting a position for emotional relief, not for reasons of sound strategy and money management.

How do *your* coping efforts work for you?

Take a look at how well you trade after a position has gone against you. Do you trade better after a drawdown or worse?

How about after you have a few winning trades, days, or weeks in a row? Do you trade better or worse? Breaking down your performance as a function of recent performance will tell you a great deal about how effective you are in coping with risk and reward.

The other excellent indicator of whether your coping is working for you is your emotional experience during trading. If you find that anxiety, overconfidence, frustration, and stress are pushing you into poor decisions, you know that you're not coping well with the uncertainties of markets.

Finally, it is helpful to identify the sequences of coping behaviors that you utilize when you're making good decisions and the sequences when you're trading poorly. Knowing how your individual coping responses come together to form coping strategies can help you cultivate your coping strengths.

Tracking how you deal with challenges when you are at your most effective enables you to create a mental model of that coping that you can call upon during periods of high stress. We cannot avoid the stresses of trading, but those do not have to generate distress and biased decisions.

What are we working on today?

Set that one goal for the day and take the occasional break from the screens to assess whether or not they're living up to their goal. Not every day can be profitable, but--if you're setting and working your goal--every day can be a success, building confidence, self-efficacy, and mastery.

Break the old habits, build better ones.

Live with intention

"Trade well and the money will come."

Is Venting Emotion Good for Trading?

Does venting emotion help a trader regain focus or does it exacerbate emotional and physical arousal and interfere with concentration and decision making? Research actually suggests that venting emotion after a traumatic event can lead to worse psychological outcomes. The key seems to be whether the venting allows for a reprocessing of the stressful events. If the venting leads to new ways to interpret what has happened--new perspectives--it can be helpful. If there is no such transformation of the stressful event, venting can simply amplify stress responses and reinforce them. Venting in a social manner to gain control can constitute good coping. But losing emotional control simply reinforces a sense of lost control.

Four pillars to emotional well-being:

1. Joy - The happiness that results from exercising one's strengths and competencies;
2. Contentment - The inner peace that comes from knowing that you've done your best;
3. Energy - The excitement and enthusiasm that spring from focusing on opportunity;
4. Affection - The bond that results from sharing your life with others of like values and visions.

Mood Swings

If you do experience mood swings around losing trades, it's probably because you are evaluating yourself by the criterion of being right--not by the criterion of trading well. It isn't the losing trade making you feel bad; it's the perfectionistic expectation that you should always be right. By embracing uncertainty and staying open to learning from it, the threat of losing can turn into the opportunity of rethinking market assumptions.

Ten Principles of Short-Term Trading

1) Strength Begets Strength - A market rise that expands the number of stocks making new highs and that finds more stocks trading with strong upside momentum tends to persist in the short run.

2) Weak Rises Tend to Reverse - When markets move higher with fewer stocks making new highs and with fewer stocks showing strong momentum, the rise tends to reverse in the short run, often entering a trading range prior to making an extended decline.

3) Broadly Weak Markets Tend to Reverse - When the market is very weak (many stocks making new lows and many stocks displaying strong downside momentum), it is common to see the market make marginal new lows in the short run, but reverse after that. Wednesday's action in the S&P 500 Index was a good example of that, coming on the heels of Tuesday's weakness.

4) Weak Tests of Prior Market Highs or Lows Tend to Reverse - When we get a market trading above or below its value area on low volume, few stocks making fresh new highs/lows, and weak momentum, we tend to get a "mean reversion"--a trade back into the value area. That's basically what this week's action has been about.

5) Strong Tests of Prior Market Highs or Lows Tend to Persist - When we see expanding volume and expanding new highs or lows on a move above or below the value area, such a breakout move tends to becoming a short-term trend. The longer the prior consolidation period (the heavier the volume within the value area), the more extended the subsequent trend tends to be.

6) Weak Pullbacks Following a Strong Move Will Reverse - When we have a strong market move that expands new highs/lows and momentum, a pullback on weak volume and with relatively few stocks participating will lead to at least a test of the impulse highs or lows and often to a resumption of the strong move.

7) Markets Are Dominated by the Sentiment of the Largest Participants - Look for how volume behaves during market rises or falls to see if higher/lower prices attract the interest of large traders. Examine the distribution of the NYSE TICK and the volume transacted at bid vs. offer to see if large traders are predominantly hitting bids (selling weakness) or lifting offers (buying strength).

8) Important Market Moves are Often Set Up on Larger Time Frames - Always track what the market is doing one and two time frames above your own trading time frame. Short-term trends are set up by strengthening and weakening dynamics at those larger time frames.

9) Important Market Moves are Often Triggered by Intermarket Events - Economic news and intermarket dynamics affect bonds (interest rates), oil, and currencies. Big trends in the stock market tend to be accompanied by important shifts in these other markets, as investors reprice equities in light of new developments.

10) Watch for Reversals When Sectors Fail to Travel Together - The rising tide should lift all boats and the falling tide should bring the boats lower. When you see sectors failing to make new highs or lows when the broad, weighted averages are hitting new peaks or valleys, watch for reversal. Inefficiency--the inability for significant buying/selling pressure (such as NYSE TICK) --to move sectors to new highs or lows frequently precedes reversal.

http://traderfeed.blogspot.com/2007/07/ten-principles-of-short-term-trading.html

Self Observation and feedback

Three questions to ask at the start of the trading day:

Am I bringing baggage to the day's trade? Am I carrying over frustrations from losing money or missing opportunity? Am I feeling particular pressure to make winning trades? Am I locked into a view of markets because those views haven't been paying me?

Am I prepared? Have I identified significant price levels for the day? Have I gained a feel for how various markets have been trading overnight? Do I know if economic reports are scheduled for the day and what the expectations are?

What am I working on? Do I have goals for the day? What have been the mistakes I've been making that need to be corrected? What improvements have I made that I want to cement? What kinds of trades have been working best for me, and am I prepared to actively look for those?

The idea is to become a good self-observer!

DON’T THINK!

BE A MACHINE (DON’T THINK) when you are trading your method. In order to control yourself and your emotions, you have to believe totally in the way you trade. Do the work. Do your thinking before you trade. Then don’t think—just follow your plan.

The Yoda State!

The "Yoda" state is a reference to the movie "Star Wars", referring to a state in which a Jedi warrior is "in the zone".

Five principles to trading psychology

Principle #1: Trading is a performance activity - Confidence in one's trading comes from the mastery conferred by one's learning and development, not from psychological exercises or insights

Principle #2: Success in trading is a function of talents and skills - Inborn abilities (talents) and developed competencies (skills) determine one's level of success. The key to success is finding a seamless fit between one's talents/skills and the specific opportunities available in a performance field. For traders, this means finding a superior fit between your abilities and the specific markets and strategies you will be trading.

Principle #3: The core skill of trading is pattern recognition - The trader is trying to identify shifts in demand and supply in real time. A person adept at visual processing, with superior visual memory, might benefit from the use of charts in framing patterns. Someone who is highly analytical might benefit from statistical studies and mechanical signals.

Principle #4: Much pattern recognition is based on implicit learning - Implicit learning manifests itself as a "feel" for a performance activity. Research tells us that implicit learning only occurs after we have undergone thousands of learning trials. Without such immersive exposure, traders never truly internalize the patterns in their markets and time frames.

Principle #5: Emotional, cognitive, and physical factors disrupt access to patterns we have acquired implicitly - Once a performer has developed skills and moved along the path toward competence and expertise, psychology becomes important in sustaining consistency of performance. This most commonly occurs as a result of performance anxiety--our fears about the outcome of our performance interfere with the access to the knowledge and skills needed to facilitate that performance.

http://traderfeed.blogspot.com/2007/02/five-guiding-principles-of-trading.html

Daily Trading Plan

Risk: your loss limit in per trade and the total dollar loss per day. What you will do after x number of losses in a row. Your strategy for increasing and decreasing your trading size.

Goals: how many R's you are trying to make today. How many trades do you plan to make. How long do you plan to hold winners and losers

Reporting: your plan for writing a brief narrative of the day’s trading your plan to keep statistics of your trades (hold times, results, et cetera). How you will mark your trades on the same charts you use to trade.

Contingencies: what phone number do you call to get out of trades should your system crash. Who can you contact to troubleshoot or repair your computer. Who do you call to get your Internet connection checked and fixed, if needed.

With a well developed, clear plan you will be ahead of the majority of traders and, through this detailed planning, you can concentrate on achieving your stated goals.

The mindset of a winning trader

1. The market is designed to pay you money - It is designed to give you money, as long as you understand it and have the discipline to live by the trading and risk rules that you make for yourself.
2. A good trade should be easy to spot and should work immediately and decisively
   
3. Lastly, any trade that does not work immediately is suspect - Be slow to get into trades, but quick to get out of trades

Expect every trade to explode in your favor the moment you put on the trade.

Trading Mistakes

"Successful trading is simply a business of not making mistakes."

One of the most productive things you can do to become a profitable trader is to make a list of your most common mistakes:

1. Missing trades. When my setup occurs I need to make sure I'm aware of it and haven't been distracted by chat rooms, email, phone calls or lulled into boredom by a consolidating market. I also need to make sure I don't hesitate to pull the trigger when I do see my setups.
2. Trading reversals that are not in extended trends and during which the internal market energy has not reversed.
3. Trading only one time frame without the confirmation of a longer-term chart.
4. Trading when I’m tired.
5. Over trading. Never try to make up for losses or missed trades. Never trade out of boredom. Never take any trade that doesn't match my rules 100%.
6. Not taking profits on my first exit soon enough. It is critical to adjust my cost position in the trade and therefore keep losses small.
7. Exiting my entire position too soon. I must keep at least part of my position alive until the energy of the trade has shifted so I can ride the big moves.

http://www.traderkingdom.com/futures-topics/trading-psychology/166-whats-more-important-trading-method-or-trading-psychology

Why Pros Win and Amateurs Lose

Amateurs think trading is about finding the perfect:

• Chart pattern
• Indicator
• Moving average
• Trading system
• Market guru

Beginners work on trading. Masters work on themselves.

Man's unique reward

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind. Ayn Rand

Oscillation / Reversal Trader

Anticipating a reaction to the broad market -- whether they may be trending at the beginning and you can get in on the trend early, or whether it’s providing signals that it’s exhausting and about ready to turn. Largely looking for changes in trends, oscillations, trading ranges, shorting tops and buying bottoms and doing so in a way where risk is fairly minimized through trade management.

Kuroshio Sea

Thanks!

"It’s not meant to be easy to do all of this; in fact it’s meant to be very hard. If it were easy anyone could do it. Almost everyone knows what it takes; few can actually do it consistently. That's the challenge. When adversity strikes even when you're doing the right things, it’s not unfortunate because greatness is not just about doing the right things, but about doing them even when they cause pain and discomfort- weathering the tough times is the inherent prerequisite for being great. Adversity is built into the game and therefore it’s not an unfortunate set-back that is keeping you from your potential; rather your potential is cut very short without being able to deal well with adversity. So expect great results long-term, but adversity and ups and downs short-term. It’s got to always be about doing the long-term beneficial, not the short-term pleasurable. And we don’t deviate from that, no matter the pressure. And we relish the opportunity to be mentally tough when adversity strikes when so many would wilt and when it feels so unnatural to be optimistic and confident. That is the real goal and priority. Now keep conditioning- constantly reprocess and replace any thoughts that aren’t in line with all of this. It will take a great commitment to unlearn old thinking patterns and instill a new way of thinking to the point of habit. And you can do it."

Reading this reminds me that I'm not a victim of circumstances. That adversity isn't some external factor sabotaging my results. It's part of the game. In fact, it's what the game is all about! You have to learn to relish the opportunity to remain poised when losses hit or when you make mistakes. Take pride in it and make it your main focus. Love trading's inherent difficulties because the ability to handle them is what will truly set you apart. And always remember: this is a game of hits, losses, and misses. Those that can take them best ARE the best.

I wish you all the best in your trading.

Ziad

Change your focus and learning method!

"Too many traders are looking for setups, when in fact they're the ones being set up."

Trading is about being okay with ambiguity. It's about tolerating confusion. It's about sitting with discomfort and being at peace with it. It's about not having an exact script of when to trade or not to trade, or what's really a high odds trade, and being okay with that. It's about exceptions to the rules. It's about contradiction. It's about uncertainty.

Simple set-ups could never capture that!

So what's the solution? Become adept at reading markets!

Every trader needs to learn to READ the market - It is all about market action!.

1. a synthesis of different elements - (whether they be price action, indicators, inter-market themes, etc) - the odds of it doing this or doing that. (EOD journal daily mkt action and what it means and how you should trade it)
   
2. with real-time interpretation
3. and it all has to be about CONTEXT
4. then employ "simple" set-ups to enter and exit

The real work is in interpreting the broader picture and then employing the specific type of set-up that should be used.

The main focus is never on simple, mindless set-ups!

The market rewards what is hard to do. It's hard to have ambiguity surrounding your market reads. It's hard being uncertain. It's hard dealing with competing and sometimes conflicting signs. And yet, this is what it's all about.

Train your mind to be able to deal with the uncertainty!

Over time, develop a feel for the markets, and a certain understanding of how certain days differ and many subtle signs and tells for each type of environment and context (range days, trend days, etc) - form trading ideas and then try to get in at good trade locations. In some environments it's best to wait for pullbacks, in others you need to get in at market or you'll be left in the dust. In some markets I can buy low and sell high, in other markets the opposite is in order. And so on.

Don't waste your day in waiting mode!

Creep - Stone Temple Pilots

Forward yesterday
Makes me wanna stay
What they said was real
Makes me wanna steal
Livin' under house
Guess I'm livin', I'm a mouse
All's I gots is time
Got no meaning, just a rhyme


Take time with a wounded hand
'Cause it likes to heal
Take time with a wounded hand
'Cause I like to steal
Take time with a wounded hand
'Cause it likes to heal, I like to steal


I'm half the man I used to be
This I feel as the dawn
It fades to gray
Well, I'm half the man I used to be
This I feel as the dawn
It fades to gray
Well, I'm half the man I used to be
This I feel as the dawn
It fades to gray
Well, I'm half the man I used to be, half the man I used to be


Feelin' uninspired
Think I'll start a fire
Everybody run
Bobby's got a gun
Think you're kinda neat
Then she tells me I'm a creep
Friends don't mean a thing
Guess I'll leave it up to me


Take time with a wounded hand
'Cause it likes to heal
Take time with a wounded hand
Guess I like to steal
Take time with a wounded hand
'Cause it likes to heal, I like to steal


I'm half the man I used to be
This I feel as the dawn
It fades to gray
I'm half the man I used to be
This I feel as the dawn
It fades to gray
I'm half the man I used to be
This I feel as the dawn
It fades to gray
I'm half the man I used to be, half the man I used to be


Take time with a wounded hand
'Cause it likes to heal
Take time with a wounded hand
Guess I like to steal
Take time with a wounded hand
'Cause it likes to heal, I like to steal


I'm half the man I used to be
This I feel as the dawn
It fades to gray
I'm half the man I used to be
This I feel as the dawn
It fades to gray
I'm half the man I used to be
This I feel as the dawn
It fades to gray
I'm half the man I used to be, half the man I used to be,
Half the man I used to be

KORN- Creep

When you were here before,
Couldn't look you in the eye
You're just like an angel,
Your skin makes me cry

You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
I wish I was special
You're so fuckin' special

But I'm a creep,
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doin' here?
I don't belong here

I don't care if it hurts,
I wanna have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul

I want you to notice
when I'm not around
You're so fuckin' special
I wish I was special

But I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doin' here?
I don't belong here, ohhhh, ohhhh

She's running out again
She's running out
She run run run run...
run... run...

Whatever makes you happy
Whatever you want
You're so fuckin' special
I wish I was special

But I'm a creep,
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doin' here?
I don't belong here

I don't belong here...

Dosti

Billie Jean

Heritik

Scarface Best Parts

Pep Talks

http://www.askmen.com/top_10/sports/top-10-sports-movie-pep-talks_3.html

La vie en rose - Louis Armstrong

Stuck in Negativity?

Perception

Neither poker nor the market can be played purely mathematically or statistically. Many computer programmers have tried to game poker and the stock market, but they have failed, since a program is unable to understand the perception of the moment, as judgment requires a human mind.

Schedule Vacations

It is important to give both your mind and your body a rest.

Control your emotions

Allowing your confidence to be shaken can turn a simple losing streak into a terrible case of going bad. Keep your emotions in check. When you lose a pot or make a poor investment decision, get up, walk around the chair or take some deep breaths. Don't lose your poise. If a trade, or if poker hand does not work out, walk away from the position/hand. Be confident enough about your ability to win afterwards.

Forgettabouutitt

Never let your mind dwell on personal problems. Never play/trade when you are upset. Make a conscious and constant effort to discover any leaks in your play, and then eliminate them.

ESP

ESP ... it's a jellyroll. In those rare instances when all your card knowledge and market judgment/knowledge leave you in doubt, go with your strong feelings and not against them.

Badass

Be as competitive as you can be. Go into a poker game and into a trade with the idea of completely destroying your opponent or scoring a major investment coup. If you win a pot or make a successful trade, nearly always play the next pot or make the next trade shortly thereafter -- within reason. Although the cards and trades might break even in the long run, rushes do happen, and momentum often feeds upon itself. When you earn the right to be aggressive, you should be aggressive. When you have a tremendous conviction in a poker hand or trade, you have to go for the jugular.

Play aggressively!

Understand when to play aggressively. It's the winning way. Don't be a tight or loose player/trader; be a solid one and recognize when it is time to press your bets/positions. To attain superior returns in poker and investing over the long run, grind it out (in stocks until you are up 30%-40%, and then if you have convictions, go for a 100% year). If you can avoid losing and put together a few 100% years, you can achieve outstanding long-term investment performance.

Tells

Tells: Look for them, and you will find them. Poker players and stock markets have tells -- giveaway moves that are very revealing. Learn to recognize them. History is your textbook. (For example, improving corporate financials usually presage a rally; conversely, deteriorating financials usually augur poor market performance)

Joe Walsh

Hotel California Live - Eagles

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas, rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance, I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night
There she stood in the doorway;
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself,
'This could be Heaven or this could be Hell'
Then she lit up a candle and she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor,
I thought I heard them say...

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year, you can find it here

Her mind is Tiffany-twisted, she got the Mercedes-Benz
She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat.
Some dance to remember, some dance to forget

So I called up the Captain,
'Please bring me my wine'
He said, 'We haven't had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine'
And still those voices are calling from far away,
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say...

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
They livin' it up at the Hotel California
What a nice surprise, bring your alibis

Mirrors on the ceiling,
The pink champagne on ice
And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device'
And in the master's chambers,
They gathered for the feast
The stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can't kill the beast

Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
'Relax,' said the night man,
We are programmed to receive.
You can checkout any time you like,
but you can never leave!

Michael Jackson

Gipsy Kings

Elissa - Baddy Doub

Bobby

Lord of Lords

Tarzan Call

You'll be in my heart by Phil Collins

Come stop your crying, it will be all right
Just take my hand, hold it tight
I will protect you from all around you
I will be here dont you cry

For one so small,you seem so strong
My arms will hold you keep you safe and warm
This bond between us cant be broken
I will be here dont you cry

And youll be in my heart
Yes, youll be in my heart
From this day on
Now and forever more
Youll be in my heart
No matter what they say
Youll be here in my heart
Always

Why cant they understand the way we feel
They just dont trust what they cant explain
I know were different but deep inside us
Were not that different at all

And youll be in my heart
Yes, youll be in my heart
From this day on
Now and forever more
Youll be in my heart
No matter what they say
Youll be here in my heart
Always

Dont listen to them, cause what do they know
We need each other, to have and to hold
Theyll see in time, I know

When destiny calls you, you must be strong
I may not be with you, but you gotta hold on
Theyll see in time, I know

Well show them together cuz...

Youll be in my heart
I believe, youll be in my heart
Ill be there from this day on
Now and forever more

Youll be in my heart
No matter what they say
Youll be here in my heart always

Always...
Ill be with you
Ill be there for you always
Always and always
Just look over your shoulder
Just look over your shoulder
Just look over your shoulder
Ill be there always

I Wan'na Be Like You

Now I'm the king of the swingers
Oh, the jungle VIP
I've reached the top and had to stop
And that's what botherin' me
I wanna be a man, mancub
And stroll right into town
And be just like the other men
I'm tired of monkeyin' around!

Oh, oobee doo
I wanna be like you
I wanna walk like you
Talk like you, too
You'll see it's true
An ape like me
Can learn to be humen too

Gee, cousin Louie
You're doin' real good

Now here's your part of the deal, cuz
Lay the secret on me of man's red fire

But I don't know how to make fire

Now don't try to kid me, mancub
I made a deal with you
What I desire is man's red fire
To make my dream come true
Give me the secret, mancub
Clue me what to do
Give me the power of man's red flower
So I can be like you

You!
I wanna be like you
I wanna talk like you
Walk like you, too
You'll see it's true
Someone like me
Can learn to be
Like someone like me
Can learn to be
Like someone like you
Can learn to be
Like someone like me!

Bare Necessities

Look for the bare necessities
The simple bare necessities
Forget about your worries and your strife
I mean the bare necessities
Old Mother Nature's recipes
That brings the bare necessities of life

Wherever I wander, wherever I roam
I couldn't be fonder of my big home
The bees are buzzin' in the tree
To make some honey just for me
When you look under the rocks and plants
And take a glance at the fancy ants
Then maybe try a few

The bare necessities of life will come to you
They'll come to you!

Look for the bare necessities
The simple bare necessities
Forget about your worries and your strife
I mean the bare necessities
That's why a bear can rest at ease
With just the bare necessities of life

Now when you pick a pawpaw
Or a prickly pear
And you prick a raw paw
Next time beware
Don't pick the prickly pear by the paw
When you pick a pear
Try to use the claw
But you don't need to use the claw
When you pick a pear of the big pawpaw
Have I given you a clue ?

The bare necessities of life will come to you
They'll come to you!

So just try and relax, yeah cool it
Fall apart in my backyard
'Cause let me tell you something little britches
If you act like that bee acts, uh uh
You're working too hard

And don't spend your time lookin' around
For something you want that can't be found
When you find out you can live without it
And go along not thinkin' about it
I'll tell you something true

The bare necessities of life will come to you

Mambo Italiano