The Price of Fame [Latin Fusion Mix]
[Intro]
“Come inside…
We’ll give you a new name…”
“You’ll be bathed in bright lights…
Have a plaque made in your honour…
And we’ll hang it…
In the halls of fame…”
[Verse]
They dressed me up
in a second skin,
Told me it was harmless
To allow strangers in
But every cheer
That filled the chamber
Made it harder to remember
Who I really was.
[Chorus]
“Come inside…
We’ll give you a new name…
You’ll be bathed in bright lights…
Have a plaque made in your honour…
And we’ll hang it…
In the halls of fame…”
[Verse]
They taught me
How to wear a smile
Showed me how to
tread the boards.
But every cheer
That filled the chamber
Made it harder to remember
Who I really was.
[Chorus]
“Come inside…
We’ll give you a new name…
You’ll be bathed in bright lights…
Have a plaque made in your honour…
And we’ll hang it…
In the halls of fame…”
[Verse]
They told me
Love was admiration
Said applause
Was validation
But every cheer
That filled the chamber
Made it harder to remember
Who I really was
[Chorus]
“Come inside…
We’ll give you a new name…”
“You’ll be bathed in bright lights…
Have a plaque made in your honour…
And we’ll hang it…
In the halls of shame…”
[Bridge]
I am known…
The whole world over.
They delivered
On their promise.
But what kind of crime
Can take something
so exquisitely sublime
And incrementally
Subvert it.
The whole world knows me
I have records on the shelf
But in the process
When I looked into the mirror
I had become...
unrecognisable to myself.