Mott the Hoople

Back when All the Young Dudes was new
I was young and the drugs still worked
Everything rocked in it's way, in its sway
I'd always push it till somebody got hurt
Cause there is no fiction richer
Than those pictures of a young man's fears

And I haven't felt like Mott the Hoople
In what seems like 100 years

Take the corporate ladder all the way to the ledge
Take somebody's heart and break it in half
Take to damn long to get yr head screwed back on
And time, that old whore, starts to laugh
Cause there is no fiction richer
Than those pictures of an old man's fears

And I haven't felt like Mott the Hoople
In what seems like 100 years

Remember when all it took to feel good
Was a song on the radio?
Has too much gone for us to rock on?
Oh say it ain't so
Yeah, say it ain't so

So the next time yr in some bar all guitared up
Acting all tragic and emotionally scarred up
Thinking in yr head that yr a rock and roll star
Well, I wish you could see just how screwed up you are
Because there is no fiction richer
Than those pictures of a dead man's fears

And I haven't felt like Mott the Hoople
In what seems like 100 years
No, I haven't felt like Mott the Hoople
In what seems like 100 years

(From the forthcoming CD "breaking the robot heart")