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I Con
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I Con
If yr gonna be crazy
Be famous in the arts
Be a chameleon
Play all the parts
Blame society
For your falling apart
Collect yr royalties
As you pass start
Pose naked as Christ
A mansion for a cross
Make allegations
Engineer yr own loss
Go into rehab
But don’t give a toss
How yr being fab
Came at such an awful cost
Mental health as product
Worked for Van Gogh
Vincent lives forever
But not so Theo
Play the victim card
At yr sold-out show
Poor little lamb
In wolf’s clothes
The illness is real
But the business is a choice
Once you sign the deal
The devil owns yr voice
To pretend to be an angel
Trapped in a Rolls Royce
Makes a great story
For hell to exploit
Your fans will identify
With your public pain
Codependent sycophants
Always take the blame
They’ll see the hero
Absolving their own shame
And glorify your sickness
The pornography of fame
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Lach Edinburgh, UK
Lach, founder of the Antifolk movement and star of BBC Radio 4's The Lach
Chronicles.
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