15 Minutes

Lyric by Marcus Bales, music by Pete Smith
© Smith/Bales 2024
I started out with nothing when I was young
Trying to make originality out of theft,
And now the songs I’ve written have all been sung
I’ve lost my youth but I’ve got all my nothing left.
I've spent my life to make my name
And now it's almost gone
Just give me my fifteen minutes of fame
And I'll be movin' on.
The hardest years are the middle ones, I think,
When every new song promises a hit
And every new link seems like that one good link
But you can feel your hope go bit by bit.
I've spent my life to make my name
And now it's almost gone
Just give me my fifteen minutes of fame
And I'll be movin' on.
It takes a while to not care any more
And do it well because it's what you do
But in the traveling night between three and four
You wryly wring your wrung-out heart of rue
And try to catch that love when it was new
And play two or three chords and sing it true.
I've spent my life to make my name
And now it's almost gone
Just give me my fifteen minutes of fame
And I'll be movin' on.
© Smith/Bales 2024

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Nice performance.

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Fifteen Minutes