Reader's Digest

Alice is a drag queen, Bowie's somewhere in between
 Other bands are looking mean, me, I'm trying to stay clean
 I don't dig the radio, I hate what the charts pick
 Rock and roll may not be dead, but it's getting sick
 All over the world disc jockeys talk the same
 And every town I play is like the one from where I came
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 The Rolling Stones are millionaires, flower children pallbearers
 Beatles said all you need is love, and then they broke up
 Jimi took an overdose, Janis followed so close
 The whole music scene and all the bands are pretty comatose
 This time last year, people didn't wanna hear
 They looked at Jesus from afar, this year he's a superstar
 Dear John, who's more popular now?
 I've been listening to Paul's records
 I think he really is dead
 It's 1973, I wonder who we're gonna see
 Who's in power now? Think I'll turn on the TV
 The man on the news said China's gonna beat us
 We shot all our dreamers and there's no one left to lead us
 We need a solution, we need salvation
 Let's send some people to the moon and gather information
 They brought back a big bag of rocks
 Only cost thirteen billion
 Must be nice rocks
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 You think it's such a sad thing when you see a fallen king
 Then you find out they're only princes to begin with
 And everybody has to choose whether they will win or lose
 Follow God or sing the blues, and who they're gonna sin with
 What a mess the world is in, I wonder who began it
 Don't ask me, I'm only visiting this planet
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 This world is not my home
 I'm just passing through