I’m the ugly step child of the rock n roll dream
Taking obscurity to new extremes
Locked in my Cocoon so long I broke off my wings
Now I’m witnessing the death of my dreams

I’m an American reject from mediocrity’s plan
Major disconnected from the modern man
Locked in an asylum of my own device
and for the rest of my life

I will be lost in a maze,
pretending to be super star
While the rest of the world says
we don’t know who you are.
Like a freak in a cage,
up on an empty stage
Hated by the lovers of today.

I used to have the dreams of a rock n roll child
That one day I would see my name up in lights
But Then I woke up cold and the dream was gone
and I realized they’ll only write my name in stone

Now every song I write sounds like a funeral to me
and every poem I write sounds like a eulogy
and when I’m really gone I don’t care what they said
the only reason that they'll come is to
MAKE SURE I am dead then say...

"He was lost in a maze,
pretending he was super star
we told him, "the rest of the world,
well, they don’t know who you are"
He was a freak in a cage,
standing on an empty stage,
Hated by the lovers of today"

I am a mystifier, on a real high wire
So high they can’t see me,
unless I fall down to their feet.
And all you lovers of today,
will be hated by tomorrow
and all your happy smiling faces,
will be monuments of sorrow
Because you're lost in a maze,
now take it from this super star
and you know I know exactly what you are

You’re also trapped in a cage
and I was only trying to set you free,
But I was hated by the lovers of today,
they only got in my way, they got in my way,
hated by the lovers of today.

I’m the ugly step child of the rock n roll dream
Taking obscurity to new extremes
The truth be known it was all just a dream
Even when I’m dead they still won’t know me.