Fifteen Minutes I started out with nothing when I was young Trying to make originality out of theft, And after all the songs I wrote and sung Though I'm not young I’ve got all my nothing left. I've spent my life to make my name And now it's almost gone Just give me my fifteen minutes of fame And I'll be movin' on. The hardest ones are the middle years, I think, When every new song promises a hit And every new link seems like that one good link But you can feel your hope go bit by it. It takes a while to not care any more And do it well because it's what you do But in the traveling night between three and four You wryly wring your wrung-out heart of rue And try to catch that love when it was new And play a couple chords and sing it true. I've spent my life to make my name And now it's almost gone Just give me my fifteen minutes of fame And I'll be movin' on.
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Fifteen Minutes
I started out with nothing when I was young
Trying to make originality out of theft,
And after all the songs I wrote and sung
Though I'm not young I’ve got all my nothing left.
I've spent my life to make my name
And now it's almost gone
Just give me my fifteen minutes of fame
And I'll be movin' on.
The hardest ones are the middle years, I think,
When every new song promises a hit
And every new link seems like that one good link
But you can feel your hope go bit by it.
It takes a while to not care any more
And do it well because it's what you do
But in the traveling night between three and four
You wryly wring your wrung-out heart of rue
And try to catch that love when it was new
And play a couple chords and sing it true.
I've spent my life to make my name
And now it's almost gone
Just give me my fifteen minutes of fame
And I'll be movin' on.