Johnny Mathis' Feet - American Music Club

I laid all my songs at Johnny Mathis’Feet

I said Johnny, Johnny tell me, won’t you tell me how to live?

All my hopes are unravelling and I just lost my lease

On a house without love, doors or windows —

Without peace…

And with a wave of his jewel-encrusted hand

Across a glittering Las Vegas scene,

He said: You’ve got to learn how to disappear

In the silk and amphetamines.

Johnny looked at my songs, and he said:

Well, at first guess,

Never in my life have I ever seen such a mess;

Why do you say everything as if you were a thief?

Like what you stole has no value,

And like what you preach is far from belief?

And with a wave of his red, and blue hand

Across a glittering Hollywood scene,

He said: You’ve got to learn how to disappear

In the silk and amphetamines.

Johnny looked at my collection of old punk rock posters —

Anonymous scenes of disaffection, chaos and torture —

And he said: You are on the right track,

But you are a lamb jumping for the knife;

A real showman knows how to disappear in the spotlight…