paroles de chanson (Don't Gotta Be A) Big Star - Tom Smith

Teenage cuties sell out stadiums in the blink of an eye,
Rappers threaten to end their careers if their fans won't buy.
Record labels treat customers just like common thugs,
Lame-O singers with fake boobs make news by doing drugs.
That's the mainstream music biz, that's all I ever hear,
If that's what they think music is, I think I'll stay right here.

Don't gotta be a big star,
Don't gotta be a big star,
Don't care if the big guys never call.
If getting to where they are
Means always going too far,
Don't gotta be a big star... at all.

Used to sit in my cubicle, dreaming great big dreams,
Concerts, movies, TV shows, dancing fangirls' screams.
Went to bed each night half dead, woke up just the same,
Thought that I was trapped there, no one would ever know my name.
And then the rat race kicked me out, my songs were all I had,
I plugged into the Internet -- since then life ain't so bad.

Don't gotta be a big star,
Don't gotta leap the high bar,
Don't gotta limo filled with girls and bling.
It's just me and my guitar,
I still drive a used car,
Don't gotta be the Next Big Thing.

I'm not the kind of artist that they want on Tee Vee,
But I can make you laugh like mad, or cry from love or pain,
I can sing a song you'll never get out of your brain.
I've got all of you, and all this music we can share,
You wonder, will I hit the big time -- I'm already there.

Don't gotta have the limelight,
I'd rather get this rhyme right,
Not in stores and never hope to be.
I only need to make enough off this,
To never go back to that office,
And there's at least a million more like me.

Don't gotta walk the Red Line,
Living between each headline,
The paparazzi waiting for my fall.
No fortune I need to bring in,
I've just got to keep on singin'.
I'm happy and I'm free, and that ain't small.
Don't gotta be a big star -- I've got it all.