Transparent Creed Lyrics - Devotchkas

you preach with such conviction 

but your life mirrors contradiction 

daddy foots the bills 

as you live a life of priveleged frills 

buying hair dye with mommy's visa card 

yet you bitch that life is so hard 

with a punker-than-thou attitude 

you hide behind a facade to elude 

[Chorus:] 

You're a simple book to read 

with your transparent creed 

Your facade recedes 

to your front-we do heed. 

sent to an ivy league school 

only to come out a corporate fool 

one day sporting daddy's benz 

next day your politi-punk stance condescends 

your opinions are ineffectual 

you're a phoney pseudo-intellectual 

out to prove yourself with verbal affrays 

but your prescence here is just a phase 

[Chorus] 

you make attempts to theorize 

with motives contrived to criticize 

you'll find ways to falsly justify your guise 

to explain to yourself your lies 

you'll be gone in two years-an accurate prediction 

and elsewhere you'll live out a life of fiction 

family money affords your fleeting radical views 

but nothing can buy you true virtues 

[Chorus] 

[Repeat 1st Verse] 

[Chorus x2]