This Is Just the Basic 
This Is Not the Best 
Everybody Knows That the Trouble Starts When You Talk All About the Rest 
First, You Went to College and Then You Got Yourself Degrees 
Then, You Got Some Pretty Girls to Get Down On Their Knees 
You Took Yourself Some Pictures and You Showed Them to Your Friends 
Now, You're Going Straight to Hell and That's Where Your Story Ends

Oh, One of Those Girls Was a Friend of Mine 
I Said One of Those Ones You Took 
One of Those Girls Didn't Want to See Her Face On the Cover of a Dirty Book 
One of Those Girls Took Her Life Last Night Just in Case You Have Not Heard 
And Everybody Knows That the Pretty Ones Go Down Doing It For the Work And

Chorus: 
Don't Be Fooled 
Don't Be Flattered 
It's Not Like You Ever Mattered 
When the World Around Is Falling Down and Every Ship's Been Shattered 
Don't Be Fooled 
Don't Be Flattered 
It's Not Like You Ever Mattered 
Not to Me 
Ah, Rick James Was the Original Super Freak

Man, You're Not So Perfect 
I Said Man, You're Not a Pearl 
You're Nothing More, Man, Than a Little Piece of Sand 
That Grew Up Inside of a Girl 
I Don't Go For the Novocaine 
'cause I Don't Like the Pain 
And I Don't Fall For the Jesus Freaks When They Seem Like They Want to Win

Chorus

I'm Not Looking For An Answer Anymore 
I'm Not Looking For a Visionary 
Help Me Mother Mary 
I've Done My Time 
I'm Closer Everyday to a Life of Crime

The God Above Us and Everywhere He Watches All the People Die 
Killing Them As Others Waste Their Time in Asking Why 
But, Time Is All We're Given and the Happiness We Seek 
It May Be the Peace Within the Meek Or Maybe the Statement of the Freak And

Chorus

Not to Me 
Oh Rick James Was the Original Super Freak 
Don't Be Fooled 
Don't Be Flattered 
It's Not Like You Ever Mattered 
When the World Around Is Falling Down and Every Ship's Been Shattered...