You Gotta Be by Des'ree

Before I start, I would like to thank Blueeses/Eric/Rhyce for the mp3. Thanks, bro!

This song reminds me of the stress interview I underwent to be admitted in a student organization. When I say stress interview, I mean STRESS interview. Picture this. You’re in your business attire on a school day where everybody wears casual. You’re blindfolded and lead to an empty classroom. You heard the door slammed close. The guys you thought as friends now asks you in their serious tone. They forbid you to laugh or smile. You are to address them as ‘Sir’. They ask you silly questions and you’re supposed to answer them seriously and politely. They even whisper in your ears. They made banging sounds like hitting the blackboard, kicking the chairs and slamming the armrest on the chair you’re seated on. They make fun of you, make you do crazy stuff like pretending to sell a casket or do push-ups or sing. You’re just an applicant and passing this interview is a prerequisite to being admitted in the organization.

The first interviewee from my batch came out shocked. He kept cursing them (the interviewers). He tried to control it but he wept. That’s when I thought I have to brace myself up. Although this was not my first stress interview, I still have apprehensions. A friend was kind enough to accidentally leak the questions and tasks that will be asked from the applicant during the interview. He didn’t hand us the file. He just left it lying around. I guess he didn’t want what happened to the 1st applicant to happen to us. There was this part where we will be asked to sing. I can’t just sing anything. Heck, that time I can’t sing period. So I tried searching for a song that could send them a message (not to mess with me) and at the same time keep me sane.

So I picked this song and sang parts of it during the interview. I pretended to be scared and stressed to keep them from being more intense but I really can’t help myself smirking. I can still hear them commanding me a dozen times to wipe the smirk off my face. I showed them.

(2)Listen as your day unfolds

Challenge what the future holds
Try and keep your head up to the sky
Lovers, they may cause you tears
Go ahead release your fears

Stand up and be counted
Don't be ashamed to cry

You gotta be

(1)You gotta be bad, you gotta be bold
You gotta be wiser, you gotta be hard
You gotta be tough, you gotta be stronger

You gotta be cool, you gotta be calm
You gotta stay together
All I know, all I know, love will save the day

Herald what your mother said
Readin' the books your father read
Try to solve the puzzles in your own sweet time

Some may have more cash than you
Others take a different view
my oh my heh, hey..(repeat l)

Don't ask no questions, it goes on without you
Leaving you behind if you can't stand the pace
The world keeps on spinning
You can't stop it, if you try to
This time it's danger staring you in the face
oh oh oh

Remember (repeat 2)
My oh my heh, hey, hey(repeat 1, 1...ad lib to fade)