Jim's Note: Hmm, this one goes w-a-y back. So far back that I can't even remember what triggered the song now.

Clearly I had a 'bee in my bonnet' about the fashion industry when I wrote it. But I was also writing about the pointlessness of pretending to be other than who we really are. 

You’re so busy being trendy,
You don’t see how bad you look.
You won’t find the Key to Life,
Between the covers of a book. 

CHORUS
Fashion Pages laugh in triumph,
They have caught you hook and line,
You can take or leave it brother,
Ruin your life - don’t touch mine.

Every season there’s another,
Superstar to show the way.
Do you think that if you follow,
You can brighten up your day?

Chorus: (sister)

TV advertising jingles,
Lock themselves inside your mind.
Do you have the strength it takes to
Turn and leave them all behind?

Chorus: (brother)

BRIDGE
In Vogue, Mode, Paris is beckoning,
We’re all feeling Cosmopolitan.
Marie Claire is looking radiant,
Dancing into the night.

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