Big Man On Paper - Graham Parker

I look at a news cast being broadcast and

Try to connect with the events in front of my eyes

But I can’t see any further than the bills on the table

Or my kids first Halloween disguise ooooh

Then I drive into town And go to the Hudson Valley Mall

And look at the youth in their White snake T shirts

They’re wearing a poor man’s version of the haircut

Man they might as well be from another universe

I’d like to live In one world or another

Baby one world or another Would almost seem right

I’d like to see Peace on earth for my brother But I’m just a

Ooooooh Big man on paper ooooh Big man on paper

Oooh la la la la la la la la bop bop bop (twice)

I look at a magazine designed for the successful woman

And look for one designed for the unsuccessful man

But I can’t see it anywhere on the newsstands

Maybe next week Maybe next week

So I hit the arcade and then get back in the car

And drive drive drive down that empty highway again

Surrounded by food you don’t worry about starvation

Only temptation and keeping sane

Maybe you live in one world or another Baby One world or another

And maybe that’s right I found myself Somewhere under the cover of a