Cardboard California

One lousy deal is cardboard California

You gotta fight to stay alive
Look around, your hopes and dreams are gone
Look in the mirror, mirrors don't lie
Lost in a city of little tin Gods

Come and drive a fancy car

Hey, you're never gonna get away
Come and be a movie star
Nobody cares if you survive
Nothing is real in cardboard California
Hey, you're never gonna get away
Sometimes you beg or you don't eat
You just can't survive in a make believe town
You're running down a one way street
You're running down a one way street
Cold plastic people with phoney facades
You gotta fight to stay alive
Nobody cares if you survive
But like a fool you still keep hanging on music
Where 's the world you used to know?
You're getting older, your time's past you by
You lost your shot to some younger guy
Sometimes you beg or you don't eat
Come and see what you really are

One lousy deal is cardboard California
Where did all the good times go?
Just waking up brings you down
How can you win when you look at the odds?