Covers (Celebrity or Me)

There they are sitting in the glow of celebrity They match their hairstyles and fashion to those they wannabe Crave the lifestyles of the ones they copy Till out of the limelight and then time for dropsy In the 70's tried to be Lennon Only made myself a proper lemon Do they use celebrity as a way of life A forceful escapism from daily strife Heroes for today but gone in a flash tomorrow The cost is high fashion, then borrow, borrow, borrow Gotta keep up with the cosseted lifestyle Stark white houses and fake tans Today's youth are tomorrow's people Is the future safe in their hands? Basking in the glow of autumn Communing with the thoughts of forest I cast my mind to look at covers Celebrity or me who's is the life caressed In the 70's tried to be Lennon Only made myself a proper lemon Do they use celebrity as a way of life A forceful escapism from daily strife This disposable age of virtual reality Taxes the soul and saps vitality The fair of face and shallow virtue Draw sighs of despair and wanton curfew Will sense prevail with order restored Or do we go down the destructive road In sorrow we see the lure of fortune In hope we trust society retunes In the 70's tried to be Lennon Only made myself a proper lemon Do they use celebrity as a way of life A forceful escapism from daily strife