Paleface – Too Much

Paleface – Too Much

Intro

                            You wanna be in the spotlight? 
you wanna be in the public eye? 
free drinks - V.I.P. shit - all that - not quite 
yeah, it's hard work - the only thing you got right 
you wanna be on covers? 
you wanna be in the spotlight?

Chorus

                            A message to all concerned 
think first so you won't get burned 
these are some of the things I've learnt 
think first so you won't get burned

(showed too much class) 
(talked too much trash) 
(hauled too much ass) 
(smoked too much hash)

Scratch

                            "Money controls, killer of many souls, anything goes"1

Verse 1

                            keep your head together - a be cautious 
the sweet smell of success - can make you nauseous 
celebrities are dealing with the type of forces 
that fuck up the compass knocking boats of their courses 

I hear: "way to go, saw you on the radio 
heard you on TV the last time you had a show" 
I go: "later - yo! - I'm glad you enjoyed 
I'd like to be by myself then you get annoyed 
like "be like that I guess my daddy's right 
all you celebrities are so self-satisfied" 

the first times it took me by surprise like Gladys Knight 
but then I learned their bark is worse than they bite 
but at nights when the lights are fading dim 
it's the man in the mirror - you end up hating him 
at night when the lights are fading dim 
I know frustration is a devastating thing

Chorus

                            A message to all concerned 
think first so you won't get burned 
these are some of the things I've learnt 
think first so you won't get burned

(showed too much class) 
(talked too much trash) 
(hauled too much ass) 
(smoked too much hash)

Scratch

                            "Money controls"

Verse 2

                            "What's your name, Sir?" 
My name's Paleface, I'm a supadupa star 
every other week I get a brand new car 
it's funny - you never know who your friends are 
you lose touch with reality in the back of the bar 

people think your loaded when you noted and famed 
some get so zoaded - they end up bloated and maimed 
celebrities - sugar-coated and tamed 
at gunpoint like housepets - loaded and aimed 

"we'll squeeze the trigger if you don't co-operate" 
go figure how to operate with a blown mind 
turning deaf, dumb and blind - it'll come around all that you leave behind 

signed hundreds, hundreds and hundreds of autographs 
I ain't saying it's too much for yawl to ask 
two years past - it's all changing sorta fast 
you had your fifteen minutes - now it's quarter past

Chorus

                            A message to all concerned 
think first so you won't get burned 
these are some of the things I've learnt 
think first so you won't get burned

(showed too much class) 
(talked too much trash) 
(hauled too much ass) 
(smoked too much hash)

Scratch

                            "Money controls, killer of many souls, anything goes"1

Bridge

                            Fame - a peculiar mixture of holding your own and posing for pictures 
Fame - Luke 7:35 - ancient scriptures 
Fame - one of the worst forms of addiction 
Fame - feel it oozing thru the pours of your skin 

"Am I really on the cover?" 
"Of course if you will and if not we will have to use force on your kin" 
Fame - feel it oozing thru the pours of your skin

Chorus

                            A message to all concerned 
think first so you won't get burned 
these are some of the things I've learnt 
think first so you won't get burned

(showed too much class) 
(talked too much trash) 
(hauled too much ass) 
(smoked too much hash)

Scratch

                            "Money controls, killer of many souls, anything goes"1