What are the lyrics to Barbara Mason's 'Another Man is Beating my Time'?

Answer 1

This is about a woman who is in love with a gay man. This is quite funny as this uses pointers only really gay men would understand.

beating my time = being with someone else rather than with me

Another Man By Barbara Mason

(lead rap talk paragraph)

Do you remember when I said she's got the papers and I've got the man

Well the man that she had that I took from her

Is not the man child that we thought he was at all!

(lead sing paragraph)

Caught in the middle, I don't know what to do

What can you do when your man is untrue

There's another man (oh baby)

In my life (in my life)

Looked very normal until I opened my eyes

The man I love to marry loves another guy

There's another man (another man)

In my life (oh in my life)

(Main chorus paragraph)

Another man is beating my time (another man is beating my time)

Another man is loving mine (another man)

Another man is beating my time (another man)

Another man is loving mine (another man is loving mine)

(background rap with lead singing)

Another man is beating my time (I am going crazy, crazy, crazy)

Another man is loving mine

Another man is beating my time ([soft] going crazy)

Another man is loving mine

(lead rap talk paragraph)

You know you and I were together

I was so in love with you

But there was a little bit

Too much sugar and we were a little … too sweet

(background: There was a little bit too much sugar and you were too sweet?)

(lead sing paragraph)

I think I want to stay but I don't know if I can

Love him like I do and share him with a man

There's another man (another man)

In my life (in my life)

Oh, I think I am going to leave but I can't swallow my pride

Admit my lover loves another guy

There's another man (another man)

(ooh child)

In my life (in my life)

(repeat chorus slightly different)

Another man is beating my time (another man is beating my time)

Another man is loving mine (loving mine)

Another man is beating my time (ooh you know he's beating mine)

Another man is loving mine (mine)

(background rap with lead singing)

Another man is beating my time

Another man is loving mine

Another man is beating my time

Another man is loving mine

You know

I started to notice a definite … strangeness

There was no saneness

He was changing

I had gone out one day and bought me a very, very sexy dress

And opened up my closet and it had disappeared

Lord I hope the man is not wearing mine!

(ooh child!)

(entire paragraph is lead rap talk)

And I also picked up other little things like when you were making love the other night

I thought he was calling out my name

But it evidently was NOT MY NAME.

And I passed him on the steps one day and he was switching more than I was!

(hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm,)

And I even caught them holding hands

Walking right down Market Street

Ya'll know where Market Street is

He was so desirable, and it's gonna be such a waste

You know when you think everything is in place

And what you think you had is not what you really have at all

Because in my case what I thought I had

Was not an entire whole man but a facsimile thereof

(ummm, ummm)

Wasn't a clone or nothin', you know I am not into that.

There was a certain kind of way that he talked to me

His voice went up, you know at first he was talking "yeah baby yeah"

And then he went soprano and it kept going up and down

And there must have been, I figure a defect of not when he was created

But somewhere down the line something went wrong

(background)

Another man is beating my time

Another man is loving mine

Another man is beating my time

Another man is loving mine

(To fade)

Another man is beating my time (another man is beating my time)

Another man is loving mine (loving mine)

Another man is beating my time (ooh you know he's beating mine)

Another man is loving mine (mine)