No One Likes a Fat Pop Star

Album: Swings Both Ways (2013)
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  • I come from a land of kebabs and curries
    Second helpings, no worries
    Pile the carbs upon the plate
    Then one day, it's too late

    No breakfast, no luncheon
    Just carpet I'm munching
    A thimble of self-esteem
    Glazed nothing for afters
    An absence of laughter
    The saddest that I've ever been

    You just can't be portly
    Not this side of forty
    Showbiz is a single chin game
    Scum paparazzi's and weight police nasties
    Have narrowed the hall of fame

    No one likes a fat pop star
    Pop is a place for the thin
    No one likes a fat pop star
    We want to hear thin people sing

    When I get faint
    I chew through my restraints
    It's the best meal that I've had all week
    If I could eat my own words
    I'd tear through the verbs
    But nobody pays me to speak

    No one likes a fat pop star
    Pop is a place for the thin
    No one likes a fat pop star
    We're sorry we can't let you in

    Now you've upset me
    I feel like a snack
    A packet of Minstrels
    A pie and a nap
    So what's wrong with that?

    No breakfast, no luncheon
    Just carpet I'm munching
    A thimble of self-esteem
    Glazed nothing for afters
    An absence of laughter
    The thinnest that I've ever been

    Thank you Writer/s: Chris Heath, Guy Antony Chambers, Robert Peter Williams
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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