Ballad Of An Overnight Success

Heard you lost your marquis
And your price went down
And all the girls in town
Are suddenly missing

Aim high you’ll end up
Under the curtain strings
With all the dusty things
You shouldn’t be wishing for

And you may not feel so wanted now
But you’re missing the point somehow
It’s such a fundamental thing
What you get is what you bring
Though you may not feel so wanted now

I know I saw you on the TV last night
Or was it on the red eye flight
From Kennedy westbound?

It’s so uncanny my cousin looks just like you
Wants to be in showbiz, too
Maybe you could show him around?

But you may not feel so wanted now
And you’re missing the point somehow
It’s such a fundamental thing
What you get is what you bring
Though you may not feel so wanted now

A crowded mess around the pinup so folded and afraid
A smile so phony like it’s molded in clay
And all us poster boys are beat up, if they find out
We’re holding nothing, everyone will turn us away

I heard the Chateau Marmont gave you the suicide suite
Isn’t that how they greet the has beens?
It’s just like you to stink up the joint with your sad farewells
I’ll see you in “has been hell” it certainly has been swell

You may not feel so wanted now
And you’re missing the point somehow
It’s such a fundamental thing
What you get is what you bring
I know you may not feel so wanted now

It’s a fundamental thing
What you get is what you bring
Though you may not feel so wanted now
And you may just not be wanted…