Funhouse mirror
You say everything I wanna hear
A cheap trick
Just vague enough to make it clear that
I'm your best friend
I'm your one and only
There will never be another stranger as familiar as you are with me

And maybe we have walked the same roads
Lived the same lives
Crashed the same rides
Made the same mistake too many times
As long as it fits with the mythology of your deification
It's fine
(No, I don't really mind)

The authenticity may vary
What your artistry will carry
Ultimately comes to what you wanna show
The altar of attention will take any price
The rawness of a sincere look to life
Or packaged tropes in shiny chrome

The audience is your witness
Or the audience is your cashcow
Art is your catharsis
Or your ticket to the penthouse
Feed that gaping hunger for whatever sin you crave now
Get the glitz and glamor
But remember

You're a superstar
Who's only gone so far
Thanks to people like me
And we don't love for free
Your name is built on fealty
Don't mistake talent and ambition for our currency
The only language fame speaks is drummed virality
And our social contract details that idolatry
Will pay the price of agency
So pay up
Pay up
This is as close you'll get to divinity

I'm gonna eat you alive
I'm gonna eat you alive
Take you for all you're worth
Cause I'm a fucking parasite
You forfeited your own life
When you coveted my time
Take you for all you're worth
Cause I'm a fucking parasite
P-A-R-A-S-I-T-E
P-A-R-A-S-I-T-E
(I'm a motherfucking parasite)
P-A-R-A-S-I-T-E
P-A-R-A-S-I-T-E
(I'm a motherfucking parasite)

Uh oh!
Did I hit too close to home?
Scratched your golden throne
That you said you built alone
"I'm a prodigy!"
Cries the nepo baby
Gifted by societal lottery
Familial probability

Honey, you're a dime a dozen
You ain't even average
The money you were born with
Is what's doing all the leverage
So don't look at me
Like you're so unhappy
Like the spotlight wasn't all that you dreamed
You wanted attention from me

I'm gonna eat you alive
I'm gonna eat you alive
Take you for all you're worth
Cause I'm a fucking parasite
You forfeited your own life
When you coveted my time
Take you for all you're worth
Cause I'm a fucking parasite
P-A-R-A-S-I-T-E
P-A-R-A-S-I-T-E
(I'm a motherfucking parasite)
P-A-R-A-S-I-T-E
P-A-R-A-S-I-T-E
(I'm a motherfucking parasite)

Uh oh!
Did I hit too close to home?
Scratched your golden throne
That you said you built alone
Uh oh!
Is the fame starting to choke?
Too much of your skin and bone
Clogging everybody's phone

But don't you worry, baby
You're not even a person
You're a concept
An idea I can
Spin around and around and around
Something I can break and peer inside like I'm supposed to
If it shatters, that's the price of love
What can you do?

I'm gonna eat you alive
I'm gonna eat you alive
Take you for all you're worth
Cause I'm a fucking parasite
You forfeited your own life
When you coveted my time
Take you for all you're worth
Cause I'm a fucking parasite

I'm gonna eat you alive
I'm gonna eat you alive
Take you for all you're worth
Cause I'm a fucking parasite
You forfeited your own life
When you coveted my time
Take you for all you're worth
Cause I'm a fucking parasite

P-A-R-A-S-I-T-E
P-A-R-A-S-I-T-E
(I'm a motherfucking parasite)
P-A-R-A-S-I-T-E
P-A-R-A-S-I-T-E
(I'm a motherfucking parasite)