Devotchkas transparent creed lyrics

you preach with such conviction

but your life mirrors contradiction

daddy foots the bills

as you live a life of priveleged frills

buying hair dye with mommy's visa card

yet you bitch that life is so hard

with a punker-than-thou attitude

you hide behind a facade to elude



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You're a simple book to read

with your transparent creed

Your facade recedes

to your front-we do heed.



sent to an ivy league school

only to come out a corporate fool

one day sporting daddy's benz

next day your politi-punk stance condescends

your opinions are ineffectual

you're a phoney pseudo-intellectual

out to prove yourself with verbal affrays

but your prescence here is just a phase



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you make attempts to theorize

with motives contrived to criticize

you'll find ways to falsly justify your guise

to explain to yourself your lies

you'll be gone in two years-an accurate prediction

and elsewhere you'll live out a life of fiction

family money affords your fleeting radical views

but nothing can buy you true virtues



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