《How to Get - and Stay - Famous》歌词

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:03:20] And the Lord said：

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:05:52] Lord why Why

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:06:52] And the Lord said：

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

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

[00:07:11] And disappear

[00:07:17] So I said：

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

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