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IN SOCIETY

(T. Beechey)



So you wore a smiling face

And lived your life with style and grace

Where'd it get you? You lost your place

In society

Now you're just a hopeless case

A tattered shirt, a frayed shoelace

No longer even in the race

Now you're just like me



So you had lots of dough

For those you did and did not know

Where'd it get you? Where'd you go

In society

Now you've nothing left to show

Caught in your own undertow

Swallowed up and sent below

Now you're just like me



You had the style, you had the dress

You had the look, you had the press

You had it all and who could guess

You'd be consumed by your own success?



Now, your dream is yours to lose

You've become yesterday's news

But it was your path to choose

In society

You could have been a rising star

Reaching heights and going far

Instead, look at you, here you are

Now you're just like me



The people said when you came

"There's one destined to reach his fame

But now they look at you in shame

And you don't have no one to blame



So you wore a smiling face

All that's left is just a trace

A  faded outline of your space

In society

No longer do you lead the chase

You've fallen out of step and pace

A token rose in a broken vase

Now you're just like me