Johnny wanna be a big star
Get on stage and play the guitar
Make a little money, buy a fancy car
Big old houses and an alligator
Just to match with them alligator shoes
He's a rich man so he's no longer singing the blues
He's singing songs about material things
And platinum rings and watches that go bling
But, diamonds don't bling in the dark
He a star now, but he ain't singing from the heart
Sooner or later he's just gonna fall apart
Cause his fans can't relate to his new found art
He ain't doing what he did from the start
And that's putting in some feeling and thought
He decided to live his life shallow
Cash in his love for material

And it's gone, gone going
Gone, everything gone, give a damn
Gone be the birds when they don't want to sing
Gone people, all awkward with their things, gone

You see yourself in the mirror
And you feel safe cause it looks familiar
But you afraid to open up your soul
Cause you don't really know, don't really know
Who he is, the person that's deep within
Cause you're content with just being the name-brand man
And you fail to see that its trivial
Insignificant, you addicted to material
I've seen your kind before
You're the type that thinks souls is sold in a store
To you that's righteous
You're fiction like books
You need to go out to life and look
Cause what happens when they take your material
And you already sold your soul

And it's gone, gone going
Gone, everything gone, give a damn
Gone be the birds when they don't want to sing
Gone people, all awkward with their things, gone

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