Roger Joseph Manning Jr. - "I'm Startin' A Band" [Official Video]

Album: Radio Daze
Director/Editor: Todd Stanton
Label: Omnivore Records 2023

I’m Startin’ A Band lyrics

Can’t hear, your message on my frequency
Gone blind, from glaring mediocrity
Too dumb, to comment on society,
would seem like such hypocrisy
to me

Too deaf, I just don’t hear a melody
So tired, don’t feel like dancing’ to your beats
My heart, it wants so bad to throw a fit
To lose itself in passionate
sweet reverie

Just once I’d like to feel like I belonged
Inspired to sing just one damn song
If given’ chance could bring me to tears

Ooo oo oo

Or laugh at just one joke from funny girl
Who’s scathing wit about our world
Would surely make me think about things

Well I’m taking a stand
and startin’ a band

Can’t feel, your plastic parts and spray-on tan
Too bored, to be an Alpha Macho Man
Too numb, to feel at all above my knees
I’m not attracted to the sleaze
just leave

Just once,
I’d like to march to the same drum
To know I’ve voted number one
That my home team’s got God on it’s side

Ooo oo oo

Or lust
For twenty first century centerfolds
Their botox, saline, silicone
Just makes me sneeze but I don’t give damn

Wanna feel like a man
when starting my band

Ooo oo oo

There’s such a demand

Ooo oo oo

Time machine
High time you come rescue me
Please take me
Back to an age of hopeless romance
Top hat and tails, Cole Porter, tap dance

They were charmed
Into Miss Liberty’s arms
Empty promises
Send me your befuddled and ignorant masses
Strung out on the latest and cheapest and fastest
C’mon you can’t blame this fool for having’ his dream

So full, I think I’ve lost my appetite
No taste, uncultured, tired, and always trite
Don’t care for fashionable ignorance
the posturing, belligerence
just nauseates me

Just once, I’d like to know that I fit in
amongst the sheep with tatooed skin
to know where we all go when we die

Ooo oo oo

or else
I’m gonna set this world on fire
I’ve never felt so damn inspired
to watch it burn from afar in my car
as I head for the stars

to play w my band
as fast as I can
we’re so in demand
now I’m in command
I’m my biggest fan
etc.
I’m Startin’ A Band