Too Much - Paleface

You wanna be in the spotlight?

you wanna be in the public eye?

free drinks — V.I.P shit — all that — not quite

yeah, it’s hard work — the only thing you got right

you wanna be on covers?

you wanna be in the spotlight?

CHORUS:

A message to all concerned

think first so you won’t get burned

these are some of the things I’ve learnt

think first so you won’t get burned

(showed too much class)

(talked too much trash)

(hauled too much ass)

(smoked too much hash)

keep your head together — a be cautious

the sweet smell of success — can make you nauseous

celebrities are dealing with the type of forces

that fuck up the compass knocking boats of their courses

I hear: «way to go, saw you on the radio

heard you on TV the last time you had a show»

I go: «later — yo!

— I'm glad you enjoyed

I’d like to be by myself then you get annoyed

like «be like that I guess my daddy’s right

all you celebrities are so self-satisfied»

the first times it took me by surprise like Gladys Knight

but then I learned their bark is worse than they bite

but at nights when the lights are fading dim

it’s the man in the mirror — you end up hating him

at night when the lights are fading dim

I know frustration is a devastating thing

«What's your name, Sir?»

My name’s Paleface, I’m a supadupa star

every other week I get a brand new car

it’s funny — you never know who your friends are

you lose touch with reality in the back of the bar

people think your loaded when you noted and famed

some get so zoaded — they end up bloated and maimed

celebrities — sugar-coated and tamed

at gunpoint like housepets — loaded and aimed

«we'll squeeze the trigger if you don’t co-operate»

go figure how to operate with a blown mind

turning deaf, dumb and blind — it’ll come around all that you leave behind

signed hundreds, hundreds and hundreds of autographs

I ain’t saying it’s too much for yawl to ask

two years past — it’s all changing sorta fast

you had your fifteen minutes — now it’s quarter past

Fame — a peculiar mixture of holding your own and posing for pictures

Fame — Luke 7: 35 — ancient scriptures

Fame — one of the worst forms of addiction

Fame — feel it oozing thru the pours of your skin

«Am I really on the cover?»

«Of course if you will and if not we will have to use force on your kin»

Fame — feel it oozing thru the pours of your skin