Let me tell you a thingnOn popular culturenAmerican swingnThe British add sulphurnI'll buy you a beernIf you can compete from herennThey throw you a linenLet me see it you catch itnAnd they'll give you some time, surenIf you got something to match itnJust as long as you knownWho is running that show, oooohhhhnnAnd I was thinking, well heynI'm gonna throw it awaynThrowing out my popular culturenCause now you know it's not greatnIf you don't come from the statesnYou will always be late to be in popular culturennFrom western slangnTo showbiz spellsnYou'd almost thinknThere's nothing elsennCan you give me the newsnOn the romantic actornNo, I don't really care but his bluesnIs for me a distractornThrough his eyes I can seenWhat is wrong with me… oooooh…nnAnd I was thinking, well heynI'm gonna throw it awaynThrowing out my popular culturenCause now you know it's not greatnIf you don't come from the statesnYou will always be late to be in popular culturennFrom western slangnTo showbiz spellsnYou'd almost thinknThere's nothing elsennAnd I was thinking, well heynWell what the hell is my placenIf someone else will dictatenMy singular culturenCause everybody's a starnAnd if you don't think too farnYou can define who you arenThrough popular culturennIt's like you're not really seennWithout a fashionable spleennThat is so much alike the onenYour heroes sufferednnAnd so you gotta be strongnYou've got to just speak in tonguesnAbout how you belongnIn popular culture