[ Featuring the Interruption ]
Fame is rarely an immaculate conception
I've done a lot of things I didn't want to do
Chose compromised positions over rejection
Now I wear my shame like a broken-heeled shoe
They said I have talent from heaven above
The sky was the limit in the backs of their cars
Looking back, honey, quid pro quo isn't love
But they said, in their hands, they would make me a star
It gets hot in the lights on the stage every night
But it can get really dark in your soul
I try to be greater than the sum of my parts
But I know that I'll never be whole
At first they flatter and then they dissect
Keep you so wasted you don't know where you've been
They're your Svengali, give you a lot to correct
Never a moment secure in your own skin
It don't even sound like my song anymore
I don't know who's staring me back in the mirror
It's all image that you buy in the store
If they ain't buying I'll be gone in a year
It wasn't overnight, or even a year
Choice was an illusion, my options few
Built walls 'tween my lover and those I hold dear
You will never convince me that nobody knew
Leather couch sticking to the back of my thighs
Keeping my mouth shut 'til the deal was through
Now there's something dead in back of my eyes
I hitched myself to a star that I didn't choose
It gets hot in the lights on the way stage every night
But it can get really dark in your soul
I try to be greater than the sum of my parts
But I know that I'll never be whole
I know that I'll never be whole
Yeah, I know that I'll never be whole
I know that I'll never, never ever be whole
