Rock & Roll Lifestyle Lyrics

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.