So you're daring to be different
You say you're fighting the machine...

I woke up on the seventh morning
to find a familiar face sitting...

In the beginning, there was one sure way
to get your picture in the paper...

Are you going to be the number
On the bottom of the screen...

Amphetamines and aspartame
Democracy and designer names...

Talking to you was stiff at first,
and we spoke with the slight frosty politeness and...

"You know what I need?
A breakdown...

So you'd come in at little past midnight
the night before, and not for the first time...

Driving down the 401 at half past midnight
The brightest lights come from the brazen neon...

Holiday bullsh!t
A great time of year for Hallmark and Mattel...

At the Smiling Buddha
The bar is full of twenty-somethings...

I read your autobiography
in the stormclouds of your eyes...