Songwriters of the world are writing songs that don't always work
Cause all the good ideas have been used up
Yet still they persevere no matter what
It's too easy to give in to inevitable clichés
When you're searching for an angle and the subjects looking sideways
Better try and find something to say that's not been said a thousand times before
Songwriters of the world writing songs about cars and girls
In basements home studios alone with their muse and in hock to their heroes
It's not easy to write a bona fide classic
That lingers in the consciousness and soothes the hearts of the masses
When your girlfriend doesn't get it she says why not just forget it and move on
But no one's telling me a song can never change the world
And that was just a dream some of us had no that's patently absurd don't tell me everything's a waste of time and how to get ahead of the production line
Songwriters of the world
Nailing the melody and honing the words
Well I think you really ought to know
I'm the second greatest songwriter this world will ever know
But I've yet to have a hit or write for film or tv
Never had a track placed in a horror movie
That would be all too much too soon too easy
These victories are small but I concur with each and every one And we're gonna to have a ball in the days of enlightenment to come
Everything will change just wait and see
I'll take my place in musical history
Paul Simon, David Bowie, Joni Mitchell and me
Bill Nelson, Carol King, Paddy McAloon and me
Ray Davies, David Byrne, Ian Hunter and me
Roy Harper, Marc Bolan, Noddy & Jimmy and me
Songwriters of the world, songwriters, songwriters of the world
