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The Great Pretender

Brian Eno

Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)

1974

Joking aside
The mechanical bride
Has fallen prey to the great pretender.
Let me just point out discreetly
Though you never learn
All those tawdry

The great pretender

You’re all talk but your words are empty
The big shot you pretend to be
You’re all talk but your words are empty
My middle finger is all

cost'a sending bullets
Through the window
This that real life you just a pretender
A pretender i write verse just to get
By while going through pain
I move

Say Word

Fat Joe

Jealous One's Envy

1995

flashin from oowops blastin 

A face gets bashed in for street crews clashin 

Forever be forever great 

It's the same shit tomorrow  eulogies

Joe DiMaggio Done It Again

Billy Bragg

Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2

2000

Joe was done
Some just figured Joe was gone
Steps to the platter with a great big grin
Joe DiMaggio's done it again

I'm gonna tell you just the way I

tourin tha fixtures (Mental Cascade)

And you in tha mixture
Dis-eased by ya presence, I spawn the Elixir (I'ma God)
I wasn't birthed, I was sent da
Raise

Jesus our King
Evidence insufficient
To support the conviction acquittal
Vindication through the Propitiation
Victorious resurrection served on my platter

Music for Carnivores

P.M. Dawn

Dearest Christian, I'm So Very Sorry for Bringing You Here. Love, Dad

1998

You'll hear tales
Of all the great pretenders
Then it comes to you

You'll spend hours
Practicing your smile
Then it comes to you

You'll be

Office Cowboy

David Byrne

Rei Momo

1989

social

All night long, the Great Pretender
Sat upon his throne
Nothing can stop him now
(Vai lá cowboy)

Vão suadas, amarrotadas
Nota de dez, nota

address me by my gov name
Its Plutoroxz over everything
They say ima dawg I'ma Great Dane
Collecting checks on my agenda
I ain't never been a pretender
You

one at the age of five
But I didn't fire it 'cause I didn't feel too great inside
The tool was too great in size, and that was great 'cause by
The age

Fly Again

Kevin Gates

I'm Him

2019

shopping on impulse, I don't find it odd
Breadwinner, moving them kilos 'round, I'ma supply the raw
Great pretenders, we on the Instagram actin' like we

A bit illuminati bound
& Dawn’s trying to calm me down
Well fuck him too
Ima tie him to
My basement floor
Oh by the way Dawn
Could you turn up
The bass

suspense
The futile, the nonsense repent
Losers, surrounded by them
I feel swept by this nuisance, what do I do if
Suicide thoughts lodge into this?
Like my

don't need you, I don't need to hear this
'Cause I'm fine by myself, I'm a genius
And I will be great, and I will make waves
And I'll shake up

to code so they seen what it is
Been stuntin' since I used to blow weed in the Benz
What prestige am I in? Other greats don't compare
I cigarillo shadowbox

a ton play it again Sam
Only this time make it look
Like you having fun
The great pretenders - ice
Grill - new blackface
So long as those teeth showing

10, 9, 8
Great
7, 6
5
Get live
4, get raw
We came
We saw
We rocked the set, bet
Double trouble
Though we both triple threats
Now that's three

Yeah i grew up in the mud, 
Surrounded by some tugs,
Yeah some niggas yeah they doubted me, 
My conscious told me i'd be great, 
I just have to wait,

victimized by these crooked guys
These crazy snakes are wolves in  sheep's disguise
All they want is your vote but they don't hear the cries 
Lemme tell you

I think youre a great guy but sometimes I feel like your
Jokes are too much, I can tell you know but im not sure
Feel like with me you act so

if you're there by my side 
Make the sun shine through rain 
You make the bad times somehow great 
Don't want you to ever change 

Don't know how it'll

have to pretend
That life is so great
And I'm gaining weight from it's platters
That life is so great
And so smooth that nothing else matters?

And here

Damn im drippin in sauce
Reminisce about them days that I lost
Mind over matter, shorty to flatter
Might as well order chicken plate platter
Damn my