Do The Phoenix
©1994 David Lefkowitz
Here’s a brand-new dance any moron can do
If you’re wealthy and famous, it’s made just for you
If you’re young, and you’re foolish, and you can’t handle fame
Then go to a club where the world knows your name
Do a few shots, and you’ll feel all right
After 25 grams of Peruvian white
Do the Phoenix
The River Phoenix
First you get high
Then you die
Do the Phoenix.
Open your veins
Shovel the crap in
You’re only 20-something
Nothin’ will happen
Grin like a hipster
Try to act ballsy
All of a sudden you shake like a palsy
Scream while your eyes roll back in your head
Drop on the ground, and in minutes, you’re dead.
Do the Phoenix
Do the Phoenix
If you wanna be free
You gotta O.D.
Do the Phoenix
Be the kid who has everything, money to burn
The Sixties were a lesson that the boy didn’t learn
What a big hero, give him a hand
A stunning role-model for the youth of the land
Marijuana, heroin, cocaine and base
He’s only a martyr `cause he had a cute face
Do the Phoenix
The River Phoenix
Everybody calls him another James Dean
He’s just a dead loser who couldn’t keep clean
Do the Phoenix
Whooo! Do the Phoenix
Pretty young women, flashy new cars
If he were blue collar, he’d be behind bars
He wasn’t the Boy Scout the media made him
Where were the cameras when his lifestyle betrayed him?
He was anti-pollution
A vegan, as well,
But his bloodstream looked like a Slurpee from hell
Do the Phoenix
Do the Phoenix
If you wanna be sure your song will be sung
Act like a schmuck, but you better die young
Do the Phoenix
The River Phoenix
Whoo! Do the Phoenix.
