Surrender

No more wars to fight White flags fly tonight You are out of danger now Let them send their armies I will never bend I won't see you now till I surrender I'll see you again when I surrender I took a glance into the next room There on the table Shrouded in a shawl Was a small sad corpse A dead chimp Now don't you give me a fancy price because I'm rich Look lady you've got the wrong man I just needed a place to stash away a limping car With a hot license plate Get out (Okay, okay, okay) And I'm sorry that you lost your friend Get out of here Haven't I seen you somewhere before? Or shall I call my servant? Aren't you Norma Desmond? You used to be in pictures You used to be big I am big It's the pictures that got small Once upon a time not long ago The head of any studio Knew how and when to play his aces Now they'll put some talentless unknown Beneath their sacred microphone We didn't need words We had faces Yes they took all the idols and smashed them They tore down the temples where we all worshipped They trampled all what was divine They threw away the gold of silence When all they needed was this face of mine Don't blame me I'm just a writer