Sellout Song '89

if heavy metal bands wrote no heavy metal ballads

they'd be down a Shoney's tossing Chef's Salads, for a living

put on make-up like dolls, plea for 1-900 calls

what respectable artist does a tour of shopping malls?

well that'd be Tiffany.

we can't sing about political ills

honesty can't pay the bills

superficial, fake, successful and insincere

or isn't that what they want to hear?

what would bill haley say, if he looked around today

everyone's a dead head, or at least since Touch of Grey

was on mtv

paula abdul has a good set of... face

but you have to have integrity to sellout in the first place,

so forget her

(willie tyler and lester abdul)

the critics said our record stank

we smelled all the way to the bank

we can forgo integrity, quality, and message clear

or isn't that what they want to hear?

let's break 'a tall cool one' over robert plant's head

you know he sounded so much better when his blimp was made of Led

& not cheese

if we lost all our hair, would it help our record sales

'another day in paradise' for men whose hairlines fail:

phil collins

(take me to the bridge)

what subject would get you to pay?

well, we got this really short survey

we can get a big sponsor for the 25th reunion tour

or isn't that what they want to hear?

i'll be kissing the ground, when they take julie brown

and run her down with a fast Greyhound

well, i'll be acting really silly, if they killed milli vanilli

they'll have parades in philly, export their corpses to chile

i'll be ready to rock, when the new kids on the block

are outlined in chalk on a bloody side walk

well we can keep up with the latest trends

twelve year olds are my best friends

well i bought this guitar, i even know a chord or two

i'm trying to sing like i've heard other singers do

they'll me on the radio, yeah, they'll play the video too

it takes these three minutes to make our whole career

or isn't that what they want to hear?

you can sing about whatever you want

cause no one listens to the lyrics anymore