African Friend Lyrics - Clem Snide

Your beautiful African friend 

Next to him I look so white 

So white that you turned away 

And wanted me out of your sight 

To be exotic and I did pretend 

In the back yard to slowly undress 

As you pull the twigs from my hair 

That I'd put there myself, I confess 

So come lay on the couch with me 

'Cause nature's too wild and free 

Come lay on the couch 

We don't have to work on our tans 

A beautiful African man 

Well, next to him, I felt so white 

As white as a page in a book 

That I'd read but still don't understand 

So I joked of a forbidden fruit 

As we argued into the night 

In a city of tanning salons 

And TV screens all shining bright 

So come lay on the couch with me 

'Cause nature's too wild, it's too wild and free 

Come lay on the couch 

We don't have to work on our tans