The Campaign For Real Rock Songtext / Lyric

Don't try so hard to be different

The cracks are beginning to show

You drift like a cloud through the festival crowd

In a frock coat from Saville row



You've just been to a all night party

Where I have to admit it takes pluck

To go out on the floor and proclaim,? What a bore?

In a T-shirt that reads, 'Disco Sucks'



Yes, here he comes, the not so young

Pretender to the throne

He's singing rag, momma, rag

Won't you give that poor dog a bone?



And he's wondering why we can't connect

When he's sworn to us that he's totally wretch

On the rustic charm that he affects

On a public schoolboy whim






With a raggle taggle plastic gypsy

Robert Zimmerframe

With a synthesized accordion

A scramblin' up my brain



With a fiddle dee dee, a fiddle on high

Excuse me folks while I kiss the sky

Or at any rate give it one more try

Before I die, before I die



The overrated hit the stage

Overpaid and over here

And their idea of counter culture's

Momma's charge account at sears



And they're wondering why we can't connect

With the ritual of the trashed guitar

One more paltry empty gesture

The ashes of a burned out star



Yes, here they come, both old and young

A contact low or high

The gathering of the tribes descending

Vultures from a caustic sky



The rotting carcase of July

And ugly sun hung out to dry

Your gorgeous hippy dreams are dying

Your frazzled brains are putrefying



Repackaged, sold and sanitized

The devil's music exorcised

You live, you die, you lie, you lie, you die

Perpetuate the lie, perpetuate the lie,

Perpetuate the lie, just to perpetuate the lie



Yes, yes, yes, it's the summer festival

The truly detestable summer festival

Yes, yes, yes, it's the summer festival

The truly detestable summer festival



Yes, yes, yes, it's the summer festival

The truly detestable summer festival

Yes, yes, yes, it's the summer festival

The truly detestable summer festival



Yes, yes, yes, it's the summer festival

The truly detestable summer festival

Yes, yes, yes, it's the summer festival

The truly detestable summer festival



Yes, yes, yes

Yes, yes, yes, summer festival

Truly detestable summer festival

Yes, yes, yes, summer festival

Truly detestable summer festival



Yes, yes, yes, summer festival

Truly detestable summer festival

Yes, yes, yes, summer festival

Truly detestable summer festival



Yes, yes, yes, summer festival

Truly detestable summer festival

Yes, yes, yes, summer festival

Truly detestable summer festival

Yes, yes, yes, summer festival