Steel Strings Lyrics by Marshall Crenshaw

Steel Strings Lyrics

    (peter case)

    Well all those nights they hit rock bottom
    The songs they sang, well, we forgot 'em
    You could hear them play with shaky hands
    Guitars strung up with rubber bands
    Singing do you want a man of steel?
    Or do you want a man that's real
    They used to play in the courts of kings
    Now they're only made of steel when they're
    On steel strings
    They used to be on every schoolgirl's wall
    And they never dropped the beat at all
    They could make it soar, they could make it hot
    Once they got started they could never stop
    Singing, do you want a man of steel or
    Do you want a man that's real?
    Some of them hide when the doorbell rings
    They're only made of steel when they're on steel strings
    Playing the man on steel strings
    Were you expecting maybe superman?
    The best they do is the best they can
    The manager's doing time in jail (applause)
    And the pink cadillac is up for sale
    Singing do you want a man of steel
    Or do you want a man that's real
    They try their hands at a thousand things
    But they're only made of steel
    When they're on steel strings

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