The Campaign For Real Rock Lyrics - Singles - Edwyn Collins

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