The Aging Musician Lyrics
[The Gingerbread Man: Mr. Skull]
Run, run, run, run
Run, run, run, run
Run, run, fast as you can
Run, run, fast as you can
Run, run, fast as you can
You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man
[The Aging Musician: Todd Rundgren]
Once upon a time I played electric guitar
And they said I was a rock and roll star
Now nobody calls me on the telephone
So I sit and watch my TV all alone
Maybe if I put a bullet in my brain
They'd remember me like Kurt Cobain
And the parasites on MTV
Would wipe their eyes and act like they knew me
But I wouldn't be a hero I'd be dead
Just a note beside a corpse that read
"If you like to pretend that you'll never get old
You got what it takes to rock and roll"
Jagger - he was a poet. None of this "three chords and a hairdresser" crap
I just need a couple of players. With a couple of really good players, I could have a band again go back on the road--C'mere, boy!--play real music, none of this computer crap, real music--C'mere, boy!--We could go- we could go big
Whatever happened to music? Now it's all about marketing and media coverage. Goddamn MTV, everything was okay before MTV. And gun control - like gun control's gonna stop anything! A Colt Trooper MkIII will stop just about anything
C'mere! ...Boy, Mauser, where's Uzi? Is he outside?
Nothing's right anymore not even TV. Davy Crockett said it all when I was a kid: "If you're sure you're right, then go ahead on." Now, nothing's right. Nothing's right
Goddamn MTV!
The description of The Aging Musician on The Residents' website:
read more »Once he winked, and the women would swoon. Once he lived in limos and watched the world through the darkest of glasses. Once he played and sang for millions around the world.
Now his primary relationship is with a pair of fox terriers. Now he collects guns instead of royalties. Now he watches TV constantly and still laughs at the old cartoons at sitcoms that formed the bulk of his obsolete and sadly naive values.
The aging musician feels betrayed by a culture that once embraced but no longer needs…
