Alternate Lyrics: So you wanna' be a rock n' roll star

Well listen now to what I say.

Just get an electric guitar, and take some time

And learn how to play�

I was down at the New Amsterdam staring at this

Yellow-haired girl

Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation, with a black-

Haired flamenco dancer

She dances while his father plays guitar

She's suddenly beautiful

I wish I was beautiful

So come dance this silence down through the morning

Cut up Maria! Show me some of them Spanish dances

Pass me the bottle Mr. Jones

Believe in me

Help me believe in anything

I want to be someone who believes

Mr. Jones and me tell eachother fairytales

Stare at the beautiful women

"She's looking at you. Ah no no she's looking at me."

Smiling in the bright lights

Coming through in stereo

When everybody loves me you can never be lonely

Alternate Lyrics: Well when everybody loves you,

You should never be lonely

I will paint my picture

Paint myself blue red black and grey

All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful

Grey is my favorite color

I felt so symbolic yesterday

If I knew Picasso

I would buy myself a grey guitar and play

Mr. Jones and me look into the future

Stare at the beautiful women

"She's looking at you

Uh I don't think so she's looking at me"

Standing in the spotlight

I bought myself a grey guitar

When everybody loves me I will never be lonely

I wanna be a lion

Everybody wants to pass as cats

We all wanna be big big stars but we got different

Reasons for that

Alternate Lyrics: But we get second thoughts about that

Believe in me because I don't believe in anything

And I want to be someone to believe

Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio

Yeah we stare at the beautiful women

"She's perfect for you man there's got to be

Somebody for me"

I want to be Bob Dylan

Alternate Lyrics: I want to be Jake Dylan

Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more

Funky

When everybody loves you son that's just about as

Funky as you can be

Mr. Jones and me staring at the video

When I look at the television I want to see me staring

Right back at me

Alternate Lyrics: When I look at the television I have to see me

Staring back at me

We all wanna be big stars but we don't know why

And we don't know how

But when everybody loves me I'm going to be just

About as happy as I can be

Alternate Lyrics: But everybody loves me

And I'm just about as fucked up as I can be

Mr. Jones and me we're gonna be big stars

Alternate Lyrics: Me and Mr. Jones don't get to see each other much anymore