The Stars of Amateur Hour Lyrics

Sometimes recovery takes half a day

Then lips get red, the lights go down

And all the kiddies come out to play

Well, just a little skin

It keeps them coming back

For just a little sin

It's how you look, not how you act

A drunken sprawl that claims these streets most every night

To search and destroy the chosen few

Who thought they might get out alive

Hey, just a little skin

It keeps them coming back

For just a little sin

No matter what price it exacts

You pay your dues

On battered lips and broken themes

Your little scenes played out in bars

Well, welcome to the grown-up world

It's time you learned

We are the stars of amateur hour

A certain inept licentiousness

And heartless gluttony for squalid nights and heated promises

But just a little skin

It brings us crawling back

For just a little sin

Yeah, we all want it like that

You pay your dues

On battered lips and broken themes

Your little scenes played out in bars

Well, welcome to the grown-up world

It's time you learned

We are the stars of amateur hour

You pay your dues

On battered lips and broken themes

Your little scenes played out in bars

Well, welcome to the grown-up world

It's time you learned

We are the stars

The stars

The stars