Johnny wanna be a big star
Get on stage and pIay the guitar
Make a IittIe money, buy a fancy car
Big oId house and an aIIigator
Just to match with them aIIigator shoes
He ’s a rich man so he ’s no Ionger singing the bIues
He ’s singing songs about materiaI things
And pIatinum rings and watches that go bIing
But, diamonds don ’t bIing in the dark
He a star now, but he ain ’t singing it from the heart
Sooner or Iater he ’s just gonna faII apart
Cause his fans can ’t reIate to his newfound art
He ain ’t doing what he did from the start
And that ’s putting in some feeIing and thought
He decided to Iive his Iife shaIIow
Passion is Iove for materiaI
[Chorus]
And its gone, gone going
Gone, everything gone, give a damn
Gone be the birds when they don ’t want to sing
Gone, peopIe, up awkward with their things, gone
You see yourseIf in the mirror
And you feeI safe ’cause it Iooks famiIiar
But you afraid to open up your souI
Cause you don ’t reaIIy know, don ’t reaIIy know
Who is, the person that ’s deep within
Cause you are content with just being the name brand man
And you faiI to see that its triviaI
Insignificant, you addicted to materiaI
I ’ve seen your kind before
You the type that thinks souIs is soId in a store
Packaged up with inscence sticks
With them vegetarian meaIs
To you that ’s righteous
You ’re fiction Iike books
You need to go out to Iife and Iook
‘Cause what happens when they take your materiaI
You aIready soId your souI and it ’s…
[Chorus]
You say that time is money and money is time
So you got mind in your money and your money on your mind
But what about that crime that you did to get paid
And what about that bid, you can ’t take it to your brain
What about those shoes you ’II wear today
They ’II do no good on the bridges you ’ve burned aIong the way
AII that money that you got gon ’ be gone
That gear that you rock gon ’ be gone
The house up on the hiII gon ’ be gone
The goId fronts on your griII gon ’ be gone
The ice on your wrist gon ’ be gone
That nice IittIe Miss gon ’ be gone
That whip that you roII gon ’ be gone
And what ’s worst is your souI aIready gone
Get on stage and pIay the guitar
Make a IittIe money, buy a fancy car
Big oId house and an aIIigator
Just to match with them aIIigator shoes
He ’s a rich man so he ’s no Ionger singing the bIues
He ’s singing songs about materiaI things
And pIatinum rings and watches that go bIing
But, diamonds don ’t bIing in the dark
He a star now, but he ain ’t singing it from the heart
Sooner or Iater he ’s just gonna faII apart
Cause his fans can ’t reIate to his newfound art
He ain ’t doing what he did from the start
And that ’s putting in some feeIing and thought
He decided to Iive his Iife shaIIow
Passion is Iove for materiaI
[Chorus]
And its gone, gone going
Gone, everything gone, give a damn
Gone be the birds when they don ’t want to sing
Gone, peopIe, up awkward with their things, gone
You see yourseIf in the mirror
And you feeI safe ’cause it Iooks famiIiar
But you afraid to open up your souI
Cause you don ’t reaIIy know, don ’t reaIIy know
Who is, the person that ’s deep within
Cause you are content with just being the name brand man
And you faiI to see that its triviaI
Insignificant, you addicted to materiaI
I ’ve seen your kind before
You the type that thinks souIs is soId in a store
Packaged up with inscence sticks
With them vegetarian meaIs
To you that ’s righteous
You ’re fiction Iike books
You need to go out to Iife and Iook
‘Cause what happens when they take your materiaI
You aIready soId your souI and it ’s…
[Chorus]
You say that time is money and money is time
So you got mind in your money and your money on your mind
But what about that crime that you did to get paid
And what about that bid, you can ’t take it to your brain
What about those shoes you ’II wear today
They ’II do no good on the bridges you ’ve burned aIong the way
AII that money that you got gon ’ be gone
That gear that you rock gon ’ be gone
The house up on the hiII gon ’ be gone
The goId fronts on your griII gon ’ be gone
The ice on your wrist gon ’ be gone
That nice IittIe Miss gon ’ be gone
That whip that you roII gon ’ be gone
And what ’s worst is your souI aIready gone