Sage Francis - Strange Fame lyrics

People seem to be real curious
What it's like living the life
Of an underground super star

I awake around eleven or so with
A kitten in my face and that's not innuendo
I shake the cobwebs out my head
Live alone so I don't bother making the bed
I change sheets once every other week
Making four cups of coffee before
I brush my teeth should I shower? Hell no
Use a little baby powder to
Cover the smell though
Check the cell phone ring out! Ring out!
To hell with these text messages from Twitter
Gonna block QuestLove i ain't
Hating his game i'm just not ready to play
Simple and plain everything's strange

Strange fame makes a man take things over
Things are getting


Strange fame lets him loose, hard to swallow
The business is strange fame puts you there
Where things are hollow even homies get
Strange fame strange, baby!

My oven is busted
The bathroom sink's in the fritz
And my dryer's broken so my clothes stink
The fridge stopped workin
(Workin) and it ruined my food
We beat the shit out of it
And put the video on YouTube
People made comments like:
"Is this what people do because
It's boring in Providence?"
No it's what I do because I'm excited
And I don't have time
To refute your writings
Click the thumb down image
Go get out my business
I ain't paying for 1000 listens
I ain't clearin no sample for this song
I just give it away
David Bowie ain't my homie is that strange?

Strange fame makes a man take things over
This industry's
Strange fame lets him loose, hard to swallow
The lawyers get strange fame puts you there
Where things are hollow even my fans get
Strange fame fame fame fame fame fame

Don't give yourself to these unnatural men
Machine men with machine minds
And machine hearts
You are not machines you are
Not cattle you are men

I got the world at my fingertips
But me an my girl got some shit to fix
We battle on Facebook, updating the status
When I was on Friendster my friend said
MySpace was fuckin full of bigots
Now they talk about Widgets
Wikipedia won't even let me
Correct the false tidbit's
Of info on my own bio page
Like I don't know my name
Like I'm the ripe old age of fiddy-somethin
So be it download my dick!
Don't give me nothin i don't need it
Cause the more that I get
The more people complain
That they should have shit, like I have shit
That shit's strange

Is it any wonder I reject you first?
Fame fame fame fame
You gotta hope for the best
And expect the worse
Is it any wonder I reject you first?
This one is free next time
Better empty your purse
Got kids to feed in the future personal life
Total stupidity that I have to deal with
On a day to day basis

Greed has poisoned men's souls
Has barricaded the world with hate
Has goose-stepped us into
Misery and bloodshed
Machinery that gives abundance has
Left us in want
Our knowledge has made us cynical
Our cleverness, hard and unkind
We think too much and feel too little
Don't give yourselves to brutes
Men who despise you, enslave you
Who regiment your lives
Tell you what to do, what to think
Or what to feel (What's your name?)
Even now my voice is reaching
Millions throughout the world
Millions of despairing men
Women and little children
Victims of the system that makes men
Torture and imprison innocent people
To those that can hear me
I say do not despair
The misery that is now upon us
Is but the passing of greed
The bitterness of men who fear
The way of human progress