Tonart: B minor•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
how long it's gonna take me
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to get famous
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Will it take a week in vaudeville,
a season in pantomime,
two years in the West End stage,
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a decade, or maybe more?
A#
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Because I can't afford to wait
till I'm dribbling bald, toothless,
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spineless, and brainless.
Bm
I don't believe in your afterlife
and your posterity,
but if they exist,
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I must be at least half the way there.
F#m
And Lord, what if it takes a decade?
Em
Show me the road to fame,
Lord, show me that road
which is the road
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to the next whisky bar.
Bm
Lord, what will it take, what will it take
to get me to be here,
to stay famous?
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Bm
How am I going to have to sell my soul
to the stylists and the tailors
of this world
if I'm not to go down in history
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as one of the failures?
F#m
Lord, teach me the boy band
dance routines
above all,
teach me to be tame, bland,
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Cause that's the hardest thing of all,
Em
to be aggressive and yet remain harmless
To edit out my impure thoughts
when you know so well,
Lord, that I'm shameless
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Am
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Principled, amoral,
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confrontational and shameless
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And Lord, how long did it take you
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After you'd created this fantastic planet,
and all the animals upon it
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to creep about on its surface
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Must have taken a million years or more
before anyone even thought
Em
D
to give a name to the mainland
C
And then in the blanking of an eye,
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the backlash came
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The cynics cried and ran,
saying you didn't even exist
F#m
Oh, fashion is fickle, Lord,
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you know that more than I do
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The backlash always comes,
no matter what you've done
Created a world on that
difficult third album
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F#m
And the Lord said, don't ask me,
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F#m
Em
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All I know how to do is how to hide,
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Am
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how to hide and disappear
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Lord tell me, where will it take me?
What strange place will it take
Bm
Am I destined to be rich
beyond the wildest dreams of man?
Will I rest at last between
the breasts and legs
G
of delicate oriental girls and neck babies?
Bm
Will I be transported back to the house
where I was born in a limousine twenty foot long
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while the crowd stands by foaming at the mouth
like dogs with rabies?
Bm
Will I be born on the shoulders of
the crowd?
Will I be taken from the back of
the stadium
To the front of the stadium
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To the back of the stadium
Tossed around and shunned
by what was allowed?
who do you have to sleep with in this town?
Who do you have to go down on
Lord, tell me, what soundtracks
What drugs do I have to do?
How old is too old?
How many free copies
with every album sold?
I'm not trying to say
I'm fit to dine at your table
All I'd say is we all use the
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same tricks if we're able
Lord, I have friends
I've watched them one by one
Bm
While they complimented me and my songs
I smiled in my corner alone
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Watched their inner birds
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spread their wings and fly
F#m
Though I had an inner bird too,
Lord, you know
Mine remained a swan
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Am
in cellophane
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Trapped under a glass ceiling,
Em
a bird in a transparent cage
Lord, why do this to me?
Why let me die?
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I haven't given me a bird, never let it fly
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Why?
How long did it take you
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You sent your dearly beloved son down
To walk the planet Earth
Em
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And be amongst us
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You chose to give him sensational powers,
so he could do tricks
much better than ours
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and work miracles to impress us.
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Laura, you did it for the publicity,
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I know, I understand.
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Then the backlash came,
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F#m
we turned on your son and he was slain.
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No matter what you've done,
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the backlash always comes
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Created a world, given you a son,
or your difficult third album
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And the Lord said, don't ask me,
F#m
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F#m
I have no idea
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Em
All I know how to do
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Is how to hide
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Lord, if that is all you can say to me,
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share with me the secret of
your immaculate obscurity.
you
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