Yeah, this same set of mostly garbled lyrics also appears on azlyrics. What a mess. BF5's latest album has no lyrics included, so the lyrics seem to be whatever anyone thinks they are. But the real lyrics (closest realistic effort is on thesuburbs.org.uk, a Ben Folds fan site from England which has the most accurate BF and BF5 lyrics anywhere) are about the following: in general if you aren't successful, you end up doing anything to get attention, and in particular Ben's making fun of his own efforts to get attention and of his own claim to fame. After all, although many people love Ben and his songs (present company included), many other people couldn't care less about him (he's not danceable enough, he's too white -- vanilla thunder!! -- too literary/intellectual, etc.).
Yeah, this same set of mostly garbled lyrics also appears on azlyrics. What a mess. BF5's latest album has no lyrics included, so the lyrics seem to be whatever anyone thinks they are. But the real lyrics (closest realistic effort is on thesuburbs.org.uk, a Ben Folds fan site from England which has the most accurate BF and BF5 lyrics anywhere) are about the following: in general if you aren't successful, you end up doing anything to get attention, and in particular Ben's making fun of his own efforts to get attention and of his own claim to fame. After all, although many people love Ben and his songs (present company included), many other people couldn't care less about him (he's not danceable enough, he's too white -- vanilla thunder!! -- too literary/intellectual, etc.).