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Let me tell you a thing |
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On popular culture |
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American swing, oh |
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The British add sulphur |
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I'll buy you a beer |
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If you can compete from here, oh |
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They throw you a line |
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Let me see if you catch it |
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And they'll give you some time, sure |
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If you got something to match it |
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Just as long as you know |
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Who is running that show, oh |
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And I was thinking: "Well, hey |
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I'm gonna throw it away |
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I'm throwing out my popular culture |
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'Cause now you know it's not great |
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If you don't come from the States |
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And you will always be late to be in popular culture" |
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From western slang to showbiz spells |
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You'd almost think there's nothing else |
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Can you give me the news |
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On the romantic actor |
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No, I don't really care but his blues |
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Is for me a distractor |
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Through his eyes I can see |
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What is wrong with me, oh |
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And I was thinking: "Well hey |
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I'm gonna throw it away |
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I'm throwing out my popular culture |
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'Cause now you know it's not great |
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If you don't come from the States |
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And you will always be late to be in popular culture |
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From western slang to showbiz spells |
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You'd almost think there's nothing else |
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And I was thinking: "Well hey |
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Well, what the hell is my place |
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If someone else will dictate my singular culture |
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'Cause everybody's a star |
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And if you don't think too far |
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You can define who you are through popular culture" |
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It's like you're not really seen |
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Without a fashionable spleen |
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That is so much alike the ones your heroes suffered |
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And so you gotta be strong |
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You've got to just speak in tongues |
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About how you belong in popular culture |