I Am The Greatest

1 2 3 4 Whatever happened to good music? You know in the days when you

Could feel it?

It was almost sexual, sending shivers up your spine. This, I believe is

Because songwriters were not restricted by the small music dictatorship

Which

Now exists. Let's hope the future holds something better than the present

And

Let's leave the past alone. The music business is incapable of bringing

Music

To the future, as it sits just waiting to pounce on any third rate trend,

Milking it to death, once again putting money where the music is not. I

Only

Wish I was born before all the great ideas were used. While I struggle to

Working around this, the most annoying thing is watching other people

Succeed

Through stealing them. I could have been a legend in my own time; I could

Have sold a lot of records; I could have enjoyed it as well. I could have

Been a lot of things. One thing that I know I am and will always be: I am

The

Greatest.

I bumped into this bloke the other day we used to know in school. We didn't

Say 'hello' because he had his hair slightly perked and I had all mine

Shaved

Off. He was always a bit of a clown. He used to be a hard man, but he did

His homework, because he knew that one day he'd be going places. I knew I

Should have asked him there and then 'was he happy now that he'd finally

Got

There?' He goes to bed thinking of ways to fiddle ten more pounds on his

Expenses. Me? I go to bed thinking of all the reasons why I am the

Greatest.

We always use other people as the mirror in which we judge ourselves. So,

We

Are constantly changing to meet their expectations. Maybe we've forgotten

The

Meaning of the word 'individual.' It's as if everything we do or think is

Valued for it's conformity. Anything fresh or original is hacked down and

Always brought down to size. You don't even think for yourself, as a life

That is led for you is some kind of problem. You wouldn't recognize a new

Idea if it spat in your face and screamed out [?]. Who am I to

Talk? Who the hell do I think I am? I am the greatest.

Welcome to the wonderful world of show business. The dark and dank place

Rarely lit by the harsh light of reality. I look around and I see big

Mouthed rock stars with opinions on everything and answers to nothing.

Burnt out old men with money to burn. Bandwagons full of bands with

Sycophantic fans with no lives of their own. A place where image is king

And

Music is a poorer relation that I can relate to. I am the greatest.

I am the greatest.

I am!