I Sold My Soul Lyrics

The hottest stars will burn the brightest

The heat we sense they radiate

And although, we feel their glow

We don't know

Their lives' the loudest scream of pain

And in this world, its cruel to be a rockstar

The fire burns and churns that drives them all insane

They may shine brightly on the stage

But when they're living day to day

They see a rat trapped within a cage

That you create

I can't feel myself in this maze

It's a burning

It's a crime

Rejected left behind

I feel its all a lie

They tell me, "You just got to smile and sign"

It slowly grows a hole inside their soul

Many of them don't live to see three decades

As we know, most have brought themselves to overdose

I can't imagine the hardships that must take

And some unlucky ones leave songs unsung because of guns

And thanks to Ron...

We've lost so many to AIDS

You leave them beaten, abused, and scared

A life unseemly hard is sealed as their fate

All they are, just T-shirts on the store wall

For some pennies and dimes we exploit their lives

Gentrified and deified

Glorified

What will it take