Tiny Ugly World

Spotlights gleam across a Star Search nation.

A million cries of "me" drown out the cruel frustrations of a normal life.

It's a different kind of thinking.

A whole new way of telling lies 'til they're true.

When you're waiting for the light.

And we're all waiting for the same light these days.

A job well done is not enough without a front page photograph.

Death comes quickly to the poor and obscure.

Booby prizes for the kind and unsure.

When they're standing in the light.

40 channels of a daydream stimulation.

Help me to forget myself and raise my expectations of a better life.

I'm ready to be special now.

Get what I deserve and shine for an hour.

Standing in the light.

And it would help if you could die.

(It's a tiny little world)

Something fast and tragic at an early age.

Guilty soon as you try.

(Teeny tiny little heroes)

Get a sense of history put yourself on the page.

It's an ugly sight.

(In a tiny ugly world)

When everybody's on the stage.

She's got a face to launch a thousand supersonic jets.

A waitress in another life, how easily she forgets.

Looks back with a sigh to simpler days.

She's not ungrateful, just caught up in the chase.

Still waiting for the light.

And it would help if you could die.

(It's a tiny little world)

Something fast and tragic at an early age.

Guilty soon as you try.

(Teeny tiny little heroes)

Get a sense of history put yourself on the page.

It's an ugly sight.

(In a tiny ugly world)

When everybody's on the stage.

Think of me.

(It's a tiny little world)

Watch what you do. Watch what you say.

Drink with me.

(Teeny tiny little heroes)

I'd be so grateful, if you could think of a way to pay.

Don't dream of me.

(In a tiny ugly world)

Have it any other way.