If you are what you say you are A superstar, then have no fear The camera's here and the microphone's And they wanna know If you are what you say you are A superstar, then have no fear The crowd is here and the lights are on And they wanna show Yeah, uh, a fresh, cool, young Lou Tryna catch his microphone, check 2-1-2 Wanna believe my own hype, but it's too untrue The world brought me to my knees, what have you brung you? Did you improve on the design, did you do something new? With your name in on the guest list, who brung you? You, the more famous person you come through And the sexy lady next to you, you come too And then they hit me, standing outside of heaven Waiting for God to come and get me I'm too uncool, unschooled to the rules And too gumshoe, too much of a newcomer And too uncool, like shadow in the veil I battle with it well, though I need a holiday-like lady who sung blue Go back, whatever you did, you undo Heavy as heaven, the devil on me two times two If you are what you say you are A superstar, then have no fear The camera's here, and the microphone's And they wanna know Yeah And you better wear your shades The spotlights here can burn holes through the stage Down through the basement, past the Indian graves Where the dinosaurs laid And out through China, nearly misses Airliners magnified times five That's what's pointed at the rhyme I ricochet off the moon and set the forest ablaze Now that's important to say Cause even with all that, most of us don't want it to fade Duh, we want it to braid Meaning we want it to grow, meaning we want it to stay Like the governor called, and he told him to wait Unstrap him from the chair and put him back in his cage The audience ain't phased And they ain't gon' clap, and they ain't gon' praise They want everything back that they paid Cause they been waiting since ten to see the lights get dim If you are what you say you are A superstar Then have no fear The crowd is here, and the lights are on And they wanna show Yeah So chauffeur, chauffeur, come and take me away Cause I've been standing in this line for like five whole days Me and security ain't getting along And when I got to the front, they told me all of the tickets were gone So just take me home where the mood is mellow And the roses are thrown, M&Ms are yellow And the light bulbs around my mirror don't flicker Everybody gets a nice autographed picture One for you and one for your sister Who had to work tonight but is an avid listener Every song's a favorite song and mics don't feedback All the reviewers say you need to go and see that And everybody claps cause everybody is pleased And then they all take the stage and start performing for me Like ha, ha, ha, ha, ha Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha If you are what you say you are A superstar Then have no fear The camera's here, and the microphones And they wanna know If you are what you say you are A superstar Then have no fear The crowd is here, and the lights are on And they wanna show If you are what you say you are Then have no fear