Ghost of a Rock 'n' Roll Star - Rick Wakeman

He’s an aging man without a future plan

He was a star but now they’ve all forgot

Now he just lives in the past, he’s just a blast from the past

Our aging star has lost the plot

Well he spends every day in salubrious bars

Dreaming that he’s still a star

He’s got a big enough gut to string a thousand guitars

Wow!

He writes songs all year wich no one wants to hear

He’s the ghost of a rock and roll star

He’s got no record deal, he’s got no modern feel

He’s the ghost of a rock and roll star

There’s more grooves on his face than on his latest LP

Which the music press just shot down in flames

He’s musically dead for all the world to see

Wow !

He grumble he was as big as Jimi Hendrix

Now the only thing that grumbles is his grumbling appendix

Lots of children he’s got, well he was on the road a lot

He’s the ghost of a rock and roll star

Now the groupies ain’t there… and nor is his hair

He’s the ghost of a rock and roll star

He cries in his sleep but there is no one to hear

He once used to have the ears of the world

Now there is no one around to care for one single tear

Wow !

Now there is no one around who wants to hear his new sound

That he hoped would shoot him back to fame

Now he’s dying inside as well as dying outside

A talent that has turned to shame

Rock and roll ghost, rock and roll ghost

Ghost of a rock and roll star

So he’s fading away, getting dimmer each day

He’s the ghost of a rock and roll star

Rock and roll ghost, rock and roll ghost

Ghost of a rock and roll star

So he’s leaving my friend, career at its end

He’s the ghost of a rock and roll star

Rock and roll ghost, rock and roll ghost

Ghost of a rock and roll star

They find him one day, at last passed away

To the rock and roll heaven afar

So at last without risk, there’s a psthumous disc

By the ghost of a rock and roll star