Friends And Influence Lyrics

He saw a book on body language at the local library

Now when you scratch your face he scratches his face too

It tells him how to build rapport and he follows it blindly

Now he’s using it on you

He found a guru on the way to win a lady

How to give compliments that subtly undermine

Precariously she is clinging on to his maybe

Keeps her dangling on the line

Though they cheer and thank the Lord

You know deep inside that you’re just a fraud

Though you say it does no harm

All these ways you coax and charm

But you haven’t got a clue

Because none of this was you

Every single word you speak

Well it’s just some cheap technique

No one knows who you really are

When you’re just an avatar

Did it need so much pretence

To win friends and influence

He learned persuasion from Dr Bob Cialdini

Now he can make you do whatever he wants you to

And his charisma is magnetic and so appealing

Ah but none of it is true

Though they cheer and thank the Lord

You know deep inside that you’re just a fraud

Though you say it does no harm

All these ways you coax and charm

But you haven’t got a clue

Because none of this was you

Every single word you speak

Well it’s just some cheap technique

No one knows who you really are

When you’re just an avatar

Did it need so much pretence

To win friends and influence