The Campaign For Real Rock-Edwyn Collins

[ti:The Campaign For Real Rock] [ar:Edwyn Collins] [al:Gorgeous George] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Campaign For Real Rock - Edwyn Collins [00:37.49]Don't try so hard to be different [00:40.13] [00:41.10]The cracks are beginning to show [00:43.12] [00:44.84]You drift like a cloud [00:46.62]Through the festival crowd [00:48.44]In a frock coat from Saville Row [00:50.66] [00:52.01]You've just been an all-night party [00:54.12] [00:55.57]Where I have to admit it takes pluck [00:58.12] [00:59.32]To go out on the floor [01:01.02]And proclaim "What a bore" [01:03.31]In a T-shirt that reads "Disco Sucks" [01:05.65] [01:06.68]Yes here he comes the not-so-young [01:10.10] [01:10.88]Pretender to the Throne [01:12.87] [01:14.22]He's singing "Rag Momma Rag" [01:16.80] [01:18.06]Won't you give that poor dog a bone [01:20.67] [01:21.64]And he's wondering [01:22.75]Why we can't connect [01:24.73] [01:25.38]When he's sworn to us [01:27.32]That he's totally wrecked [01:29.23]On the rustic charm that he affects [01:32.48] [01:33.06]On a public schoolboy whim [01:35.61] [01:36.66]With a raggle taggle plastic gypsy [01:39.85] [01:40.77]Robert Zimmerframe [01:43.81]With a synthesized accordian [01:46.58] [01:47.88]A-scramblin' up my brain [01:49.89] [01:51.18]With a fiddle-dee-dee a fiddle on high [01:55.43]Excuse me folks while I kiss the sky [01:58.96]Or at any rate give it one more try [02:02.62] [02:05.48]Before I die [02:07.02] [02:12.71]Before I die [02:14.35] [02:57.71]The overrated hit the stage [03:00.39] [03:01.32]Overpaid and over here [03:04.14] [03:04.95]And their idea of counter-culture's [03:07.17] [03:08.81]Momma's charge account at Sears [03:11.66]And they're wondering [03:13.30]Why we can't connect [03:15.09] [03:15.63]With the ritual of the trashed guitar [03:18.47] [03:19.64]One more paltry empty gesture [03:22.74] [03:23.37]The ashes of a burned out star [03:26.31] [03:26.90]Yes here they come both old and young [03:29.94] [03:30.59]A contact low or high [03:33.16] [03:34.32]The gathering of the tribes descending [03:37.31] [03:38.14]Vultures from a caustic sky [03:40.02] [03:41.53]The rotting carcase of July [03:44.28] [03:45.17]An ugly sun hung out to dry [03:47.91] [03:48.80]You gorgeous hippy dreams are dying [03:51.66] [03:52.30]Your frazzled brains are putrifying [03:55.11] [03:55.88]Repackaged sold and sanitizied [03:58.13] [03:59.49]The devil's music exorcised [04:01.92] [04:03.05]You live you die you lie you lie you die [04:07.19] [04:08.33]Perpetuate the lie [04:10.97] [04:16.03]Perpetuate the lie [04:17.72] [04:23.10]Perpetuate the lie [04:26.31] [04:28.42]Just to perpetuate the lie [04:32.29] [04:53.72]Yes yes yes it's the summer festival [04:56.58] [04:57.30]The truly detestable summer festival [05:00.24] [05:00.82]Yes yes yes it's the summer festival [05:03.95] [05:04.52]The truly detestable summer festival [05:07.47] [05:08.11]Yes yes yes it's the summer festival [05:11.25] [05:11.80]The truly detestable summer festival [05:14.86] [05:15.45]Yes yes yes it's the summer festival [05:18.66] [05:19.20]The truly detestable summer festival [05:22.22] [05:22.89]Yes yes yes it's the summer festival [05:25.91] [05:26.49]The truly detestable summer festival [05:29.52] [05:30.08]Yes yes yes it's the summer festival [05:33.27] [05:33.88]The truly detestable summer festival [05:37.41]Yes yes yes