Success - Graham Parker

The dreams and hopes of men

Are powered by addiction

And who am I to say that

This ia an affliction

When everybody gets

Suckered in and lives their

Lives like fiction

Writing their own story

Of success

They say they want you

For your colourful evocation

The way you turn a cliche

Into a sensation

But all they ever wanted

Was that same vibration

The one that shimmers

Around success

Success success

Success success success

Success success success

All you ever need success

You can’t be happy while

Someone else has a fistful

They glow from TV screens

Healthy strong and fiscal

And everybody slaps their

Back while you’re alone

With a wristful

Jerking to the rythm

Of success