Artist: Cake

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Rock & Roll Lifestyle

Well, your CD collection
Looks shiny and costly,
How much did you pay for your
Bad moto-goozie?
And how much did you spend
On your black leather jacket?
Is it you, or your parents
In this income-tax bracket?

Now tickets to concerts,
And drinking at clubs,
Sometimes for music
That you haven't even heard of.
And how much did you pay for
Your rock'n'roll t-shirt,
That proves you were there
That you heard of them first?

Now how do you afford your
Rock'n'roll lifestyle?
How do you afford your
Rock'n'roll lifestyle?
How do you afford your
Rock'n'roll lifestyle?

How much did you pay
For the chunk of his guitar,
The one he ruthlessly smashed
At the end of the show?
And how much will he pay
For a brand-new guitar,
One which he'll ruthlessly smash,
At the end of another show?
And how long will the workers
Keep building him new ones?
As long as their soda cans are
Red, white, and blue ones.
And how long will the workers
Keep building him new ones?
As long as their soda cans are
Red, white, and blue ones.

Aging black leather,
And hospital bills,
And tatoo removal,
And dozens of pills.
Your liver pays dearly, now,
For youthful magic moments,
But rock on completely, with
Some brand-new components.

Now how do you afford your
Rock'n'roll lifestyle?
How do you afford your
Rock'n'roll lifestyle?
How do you afford your
Rock'n'roll lifestyle?

Excess ain't rebellion,
You're drinkin' what they're selling.
Your self-destruction doesn't hurt them.
Your chaos won't convert them.
They're so happy to rebuild it.
You'll never really kill it.
Excess ain't rebellion,
You're drinkin' what they're selling.
Excess ain't rebellion,
You're drinkin', you're drinkin'
Aw, yeah, you're drinkin' what they selling.

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Other Songs by this Artist

1. Ain’t No Good
2. Alpha Beta Parking Lot
3. Building A Religion
4. Carbon Monoxide
5. Comanche
6. Comfort Eagle
7. Commissioning A Symphony In C
8. Cool Blue Reason
9. Daria
10. Dime
11. End Of The Movie
12. Frank Sinatra
13. Fred Jones, Part 2 (With Ben Folds)
14. Friend Is A Four Letter Word
15. Going The Distance
16. Guitar
17. Half As Much
18. Haze Of Love
19. He’s Going The Distance
20. Hem Of Your Garment
21. I Bombed Korea
22. I Will Survive
23. Is This Love
24. It’s Coming Down
25. Italian Leather Sofa
26. Jesus Wrote A Blank Check
27. Jolene
28. Let Me Go
29. Long Line Of Cars
30. Lose Yourself
31. Love You Madly
32. Meanwhile, Rick James...
33. Mexico
34. Motor
35. Mr. Mastodon Farm
36. Never Gonna Give You Up
37. Never There
38. No Phone
39. Nugget
40. Open Book
41. Opera Singer
42. Palm Of Your Hand
43. Pentagram
44. Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
45. Pretty Pink Ribbon
46. Race Car Ya Yas
47. Race Car Ya-Yas
48. Rock & Roll Lifestyle
49. Rock And Roll Lifestyle II
50. Ruby Sees All
51. Sad Songs
52. Satan Is My Motor
53. Shadow Stabbing
54. She’ll Come Back To Me
55. She’ll Hang The Baskets
56. Sheep Go To Heaven
57. Short Skirt / Long Jacket
58. Short Skirt/Long Jacket
59. Stickshifts And Safetybelts
60. Take It All Away
61. The Distance
62. The Guitar Man
63. Tougher Than It Is
64. Up So Close
65. Waiting
66. Walk On By
67. Wheels
68. When You Sleep
69. Where Would I Be?
70. World Of Two
71. You Part The Waters
72. You Turn The Screws