When You Wasn't Famous Lyrics - Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living - Streets

Ah, see, right see the thing 

That's got it all fucked up now is camera phones 

How the hell am I supposed to be able to do a line 

In front of complete strangers 

When I know they've all got cameras? 

When you're a famous boy 

It gets really easy to get girls 

It's all so easy, you get a bit spoilt 

So when you try to pull a girl 

Who is also famous too 

It feels just like when you wasn't famous 

The celebrity pages in papers don't tell tales 

That are always to the line of the truth 

It's till a line at which most likely you'll have the time 

Or enough finance to sue 

Which is why it's so frightening buying papers in the morning 

Fearing the next Mike Skinner scoop 

'Cause I used to believe what I read 

So now I know that others will believe that it's true 

But I realized with you the truth canbe 

A whole lot worse than the flack 

My whole life I never thought I'd see 

A pop star smoke crack 

And I must admit I was quite shocked 

With that thing you did with me on my back 

But outside in the lobby, I shouldn't have laughed 

When you slapped that man 

When you're a famous boy 

It gets really easy to get girls 

It's all so easy you get a bit spoilt 

So when you try to pull a girl 

Who is also famous too 

It feels just like when you wasn't famous 

You were so much fun 

I really got to like you more than you liked me 

I really hoped that you'd stay 

Considering the amount of prang you'd done 

You looked amazing on CD UK 

You learn dances, do promo, cameras flashing 

Get in the van an' zoom away 

I wake up high, dizzy feel, hung over 

And sorry for my doomed day 

But I know I got a bit close to you 

And that you found it fucking boring 

You taught me so much about 

How to deal with the fire I'd fallen in 

And what version of a rumor 

Would be next day everyone's story of me 

You taught me all the realities 

And turn the page and ignore 'em 

When you're a famous boy 

It gets really easy to get girls 

It's all so easy you get a bit spoilt 

So when you try to pull a girl 

Who is also famous too 

It feels just like when you wasn't famous 

Anyway I had to rest my beer hat 

Delete my dealer's number and unroll my bank notes 

And we were on borrowed time anyway 

What with the daily toilet papers not knowin' 

And I knew that when the people who thought they knew you 

When they found out, I would've been mocked 

Which is ironic, 'cause in reality 

Standing next to you I look fucking soft 

Whenever I see you on MTV 

I can't stop my big wide smile 

And past the children's appeal 

I see the darkness behind 

We both know the scratches on my back 

Much better than the alludes and lies 

I miss the bitchin' and shoutin' 

But I'm glad I got out in time 

When you're a famous boy 

It gets really easy to get girls 

It's all so easy you get a bit spoilt 

So when you try to pull a girl 

Who is also famous too 

It feels just like when you wasn't famous 

You can't keep fucking popstars 

We've got a fucking business to run 

There are industry repercussions, Michael 

I know