The Magnetic Fields - Rock'n'Roll Will Ruin Your Life lyrics

"Listen up
Kid" Mama said "I'm gonna make you scream
When I take you backstage
Behind that rock'n'roll dream
You think it's all money
Controlled substances
P-p-premarital sex and bizarre dances
You think it's all noise
A vast circus of fun
Well I wouldn't say this to just anyone

Rock'n'roll will ruin your life
Like your old no-goodnik dad
Kill your soul and kill your wife
Rock'n'roll will ruin your life
And make you sad and I mean sad"

You laugh now maybe
(ha) but wait till you hear
I've got no use for groupies
Too shy and too queer


The truth about drugs? Well
I can't afford those cause a lot of my money
Flew up the circus' nose
And all that noise gave me hyperacusis
So turn this record down or
It'll happen to you, sis

Rock'n'roll will ruin your life
Like your old no-goodnik dad
Kill your soul and kill your wife
Rock'n'roll will ruin your life
And make you sad and I mean sad

Rock'n'roll will ruin your life
Like your old no-goodnik dad
Kill your soul and kill your wife
Rock'n'roll will ruin your life
And make you sad