There is an empty space in the chair tonight
Cause he don't feel right
There are stormclouds brewing at the back of his mind

As he steps outside

He will be twenty in a week

But he's old for his years
He's had many of those
To confront his own fears


But his father's not the man he'd like to grow up to be
And his mother isn't growing old gracefully


He says times like these I don't want to be a superstar
Cause reality tv killed them all in america

Oh the sun always shines in a magazine
Tonight can we be free to be who we really are


There is an empty space between the lines tonight
And it burns so bright
And the angry silence that he throws on the floor

Says he don't care anymore

He had money for the truth

But love's a lot more
And the answer's is not the one he was looking for
His father's not the man he'd like to grow up to be

And his mother is his mother reluctantly

He says times like these I don't want to be a superstar

Cause reality tv killed them all in america
Oh the sun always shines in a magazine
Tonight can we be free to be who we really are


He says times like these I don't want to be a superstar
Cause reality tv killed them all in america

Oh the sun always shines in a magazine
Tonight can we be free to be who we really are