| Givin' up what you've got | 
| What you are, you're simply not | 
| Aren't you tired of this game? | 
| And all the emptiness of your fame | 
| You can't hold tight to what you have | 
| Cause there is nothing there to grab | 
| Now life is a shadow of the thought | 
| You never did have what you thought you got | 
| I'm no real thing | 
| They say I'm the real thing | 
| (Oh no) | 
| I sound like the real thing | 
| (Oh no) | 
| Sing it real loud like the real thing | 
| Makin' 'em proud like the real thing | 
| (Lalala) | 
| I come from the land of slaves | 
| (Lalala) | 
| Let's go Redskins | 
| Let's go Braves | 
| (Lalala) | 
| You want the truth in tomes | 
| Dig this dirt and sift out the bones | 
| They said I'm the real thing | 
| (Oh no) | 
| I sound like the real thing | 
| (Oh no) | 
| Joke's on you | 
| All askew | 
| Heard my name in Timbuktu | 
| (Lalala) | 
| Now I got it | 
| All mangled | 
| (Lalala) | 
| Cut it out it's all tangled | 
| Star spangled | 
| Givin' up what you've got | 
| And what you are, you're simply not | 
| Aren't you tired of this game? | 
| And all the emptiness of your fame | 
| You can't hold tight to what you have | 
| Cause there is nothing there to grab | 
| Now life is a shadow of the thought | 
| You never did have what you thought you got | 
| Oh, I'm no real thing | 
| Water ain't water if water is wet | 
| (Oh no) | 
| Don't ever pay me | 
| I look good in debt | 
| (Oh no) | 
| Red, white, blue course through my veins | 
| Binge 'n purge the USA | 
| Why are you afraid about pants size ten? | 
| Humadum, rumadum | 
| They're chosen girls | 
| While you worry about dress size 6 | 
| They're winning the tricks | 
| Those tricks, those tricks, oh | 
| Just what is the real thing? | 
| (Oh no) | 
| Don't call me the real thing | 
| (Oh no) | 
| The search for the real thing | 
| (Oh no) | 
| The curse of the real thing | 
| Lalala | 
| I come from the land of shame | 
| Blood and guts are all I claim, singing | 
| Givin' up what you've got | 
| Aren't you tired of this game? | 
| You can't hold tight to what you've got | 
| You never did have what you thought you got | 
| Oh my god I use my lungs | 
| (Bless my lungs, bless my lungs) | 
| Soft and loud, anyway feels good | 
| (Bless my lungs, bless my lungs) | 
| Oh my heat up in my bones | 
| (Bless my lungs, bless my lungs) | 
| Perched atop my drumming flam | 
| (Bless my lungs, bless my lungs) | 
| Ate food that fed me | 
| (Bless my lungs) | 
| Seed planted itself in my stomach and bled me | 
| Read some words that led me | 
| Knee ache, skin leathery | 
| Put up a fight and you're my pride | 
| Swell, my fist right through a tube | 
| Glory, glory it's good to be me | 
| Ugly one be you, who you are | 
| Ugly one be you, who you are | 
| Ugly but pretty overrated | 
| It's complicated | 
| I'm a real thing | 
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