This is the Lightning Seeds' "Change". Great song. Great, great song. Anyway, my songfic is fairly dire, but I thought I'd put it up anyway. If it sucks, tell me please. I think I might toast something different this time, marshmallows are getting slightly tedious. No, I'm not blaspheming, oh great goddess of the Mallows' Marsh, not intentionally anyway, but it had to be said. Perhaps some ice-cream…hang on, there's flaw…I can't see it but I know it's there…oh, forgive my insanity and ON WITH THE SHOW!!!! BWA HA HA HA!!!!!
*turns into a…a…er, wolf…* (bats were also getting slightly boring) *and runs away very fast *
The world is full of fools
Who never get it right
You're so great. So clever, so witty, so funny. Ha ha, I don't think. Everyone loves you. They want you, they want to be you. They look up to you, they imitate you as best they can, pathetic as they are. But nobody's quite as good as you, are they?
You don't know what to do
So you do anything you like
It doesn't matter what you do anymore – whatever you do, they love you, you're the talk of the school. So you just carry on having a laugh. It must be nice to have all the attention all the time…but I'm not sure, did you want the popularity? Do you even like it?
Put your foot down and drive
Oh you're a silly thing
Put your foot down and drive
You're such a pretty thing
Put your foot down and drive
You just keep on doing what you do, making jokes that have the whole school in hysterics, setting records for the most daring pranks and smashing them with your next feat of greatness. Half the stuff you do is dangerous, most of it is just plain stupid but everyone loves it, and nobody can wait to see what you're all going to come up with next. You just keep on going. For all your brains you're just a bunch of idiots and one day it's all going to go wrong…
You're never gonna be like all those fools
You're going out tonight
Actually, you must get really annoyed with all those prats worshipping you. But you have everything that they want, the popularity, the brains, the looks… And you're nice to everyone. You never have the heart to tell any of them to get a life and leave you alone, even that stupid Pettigrew kid who follows you around more than any of the others. I don't know how you put up with THAT freak.
There's nothing to lose
You're gonna give it all a try
There's nothing you won't try, is there? You think of things that others might think of, you know, you're not the only brilliant ones. The difference is, you think of something, and you go straight out and do it. The difference is, you have the confidence. The difference is, you're you.
You better say your prayers
A whisper to the wise
And thank your lucky stars
For coming out tonight
And there have been times when it's nearly gone wrong, haven't there? Like that time you nearly killed me! You laugh about it now, I've heard you, but someone up there must like you, that's for sure! You come this close to disaster, and you get up and do it all over again. You have to be the luckiest people alive. You should give up, you know, because luck doesn't last forever.
Put your foot down and drive
You're such a silly thing
Don't ever change
No never change
But you're never going to change, are you? You're going to keep on going, trying more and more stupid stunts until something really DOES go wrong. I hope I'm there to see it…
When tearful eyes
Are open wide
They're still too blind to see
A change in style
For a little while
Is only make believe
Are you lot really like that? I can never be sure… You don't seem like you would vie for attention, but then perhaps it's all fake. Everyone's so in love with you, they would never know, they probably wouldn't care. Either way…
You're never satisfied
So look for something new
There's nothing to find
And nothing you can do
…you just can't do and wrong in their eyes. And you can never go too far in your own. You've never done it all, 'cause when you have you just make up some more. But there's nothing you can do that you haven't equalled before.
Well done, you rule the world. Congratulations, you're the best.
Oh you fool you got me started…