《How to Get - and Stay - Famous》歌词

歌曲： How to Get - and Stay - Famous

所属专辑：Ping Pong

歌手： Momus

时长： 07:36

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Lord tell me how long it's going to take me to get famous[00:00:14]

Will it take a week in vaudeville a season in pantomime[00:00:25]

Two years on the West End stage a decade or maybe more[00:00:29]

Because I can't afford to wait 'til[00:00:38]

I'm dribbling bald toothless spineless and brainless[00:00:40]

I don't believe in your afterlife and your posterity[00:00:51]

But if they exist I must be at least half the way there[00:00:54]

And Lord what if it takes a decade[00:01:05]

I am no longer young[00:01:12]

Show me the road to fame Lord show me that road[00:01:18]

Or just the road to the next whiskey bar[00:01:23]

And Lord what will it take what will it[00:01:31]

Take to get me to be and to stay famous[00:01:34]

Am I going to have to sell my soul[00:01:43]

To the stylists and the tailors of this world[00:01:45]

If I'm not to go down in history as one of the failures[00:01:48]

Lord teach me the boy band dance routines[00:01:56]

Above all teach me to be tame bland blind and blameless[00:02:00]

Cos that's the hardest thing of all to be aggressive and yet remain harmless[00:02:06]

To edit out my impure thoughts when[00:02:12]

You know so well Lord that I'm shameless[00:02:15]

Principled amoral provocative confrontational and shameless[00:02:19]

And Lord how long did it take you to get famous[00:02:24]

After you'd created this fantastic planet and all the animals upon it[00:02:36]

That creep about upon its surface[00:02:41]

It must've taken a million years or more before[00:02:44]

Anyone even thought to give a name to the nameless[00:02:52]

And then in the blinking of an eye the backlash came[00:02:59]

The cynics crowded round saying you didn't even exist[00:03:06]

Oh fashion is fickle Lord you know that more than I do[00:03:11]

The backlash always comes no matter what you've done[00:03:14]

Created a world or that difficult third album[00:03:17]

And the Lord said：[00:03:20]

Don't ask me I have no idea[00:03:22]

All I know how to do is how to hide[00:03:26]

How to hide and disappear[00:03:36]

Lord tell me where will it take me[00:03:45]

What strange place will it take me being famous[00:03:50]

Am I destined to be rich beyond the wildest dreams of men[00:03:58]

Will I rest at last between the breasts[00:04:01]

And legs of delicate oriental girls and make babies[00:04:04]

Will I be transported back to the house[00:04:11]

Where I was born in a limousine twenty foot long[00:04:13]

While a crowd stands by foaming at the mouth like dogs with rabies[00:04:17]

Will I be borne on the shoulders of the crowd[00:04:25]

Will I be taken from the back of the stadium[00:04:28]

To the front of the stadium to the back of the stadium[00:04:30]

Tossed around and shocked by what was allowed[00:04:32]

And Lord who do you have to sleep with in this town[00:04:38]

Who do you have to go down on to get famous[00:04:42]

Lord tell me what soundtracks do[00:04:48]

I have to do what d**gs do I have to do how old is too old[00:04:51]

How many free copies should I give away with every album sold[00:04:56]

I'm not trying to say I'm fit to dine at your table[00:04:59]

All I'm saying is we all use the same tricks if we're able[00:05:02]

Lord I have friends I've watched them one by one become famous[00:05:06]

While they complimented me on my songs I smiled in my corner alone[00:05:16]

Watched their inner birds spread their wings and fly[00:05:21]

Though I had an inner bird too Lord[00:05:30]

You know mine remained a swan in cellophane[00:05:33]

Trapped under a glass ceiling a bird in a transparent cage[00:05:41]

Lord why do this to me Why let me die[00:05:45]

Having given me a bird and never let it fly[00:05:48]

Lord why Why[00:05:52]

And Lord tell me how long did it take you to get famous[00:05:57]

You who sent your dearly beloved son down[00:06:08]

To walk the planet earth and be amongst us[00:06:13]

You who chose to give him sensational powers[00:06:21]

So he could do tricks much better than ours[00:06:24]

And work miracles to impress us[00:06:27]

Lord you did it for the publicity I know I understand[00:06:32]

But then the backlash came we turned on your son and he was slain[00:06:39]

No matter what you've done the backlash always comes[00:06:46]

Created a world given your son or your difficult third album[00:06:49]

And the Lord said：[00:06:52]

Don't ask me I have no idea[00:06:54]

All I know how to do is how to hide[00:06:59]

And disappear[00:07:11]

So I said：[00:07:17]

Lord if that is all you can say to me[00:07:18]

Share with me the secret of your immaculate obscurity[00:07:25]