The Presidents of the USA - Naked and Famous

The Presidents of the United States of America with the final track from their eponymous debut album (1994)


I can't explain glacial motion
or why Los Angeles don't drop into the ocean
I can't unfold the layers of mystery
or piece together the tragedy of history, cause
those lucky suckers,
They don't have to work
make 3D billboards and big
30-foot smurfs.

Everybody wants to be naked and famous,
Everybody wants to be just like me
I'm naked
And famous

I met a poet, said she didn't like the smell of it
then took her clothes off in a restaurant for the hell of it
I met a DJ who lived in seclusion
Reality and sobriety were her only delusions, and
those lucky bastards
they didn't have to work
Make 3D billboards and big
30-foot smurfs

Everybody wants to be naked and famous,
Everybody wants to be just like me
I'm naked
And famous

Don't get a nosebleed,
don't get upset
We can't be naked and famous
just yet
There's a big old dollar sign
on the sunset strip
You can send your friend a postcard
It ain't worth the trip

Everybody wants to be naked and famous,
Everybody wants to be just like me
I'm naked
And famous

Category:

Music

Tags:

• presidents
• united
• states
• america
• naked
• famous
• PUSA
• alternative
• rock

[posthumanfetus]

Wait, it's 30 ft smirks? Well, fuck it, I've been singing it as "30 foot smurfs" for 17 years and I'm not going to stop now.

[jazzaero]

Careful where your clicking. Someone accidentally clicked "dislike"

[neall620]

@jazzaero sorry that was me..



[toh192]

Anyone who though smurfs is both braindead and deaf.

[jobbo1975]

I too have been singing 'Smurfs' since the beginning. Going to stick with it!! Prefer that mental picture

[TheSinisterdreams]

@fmsquad98rawdeluxe You're crazy! :)

[SilverTemplePIlot]

OK, here's my take after listing as closely as I could.  I think the first time he says "Smurfs" and the second time through he says "Smirks". ???

[elshikar]

@posthumanfetus and all people the lyric is defo smurfs!! listen 1.32 no ks sound at the end its an fs and what the hell is 30 ft smirks anyway? that makes no sense!!

[ajuicypineapple]

is sounds exactly like smurfs hahah

[fmsquad98rawdeluxe]

@TheSinisterdreams smuurrfffssss!

[TheSinisterdreams]

Why would anyone think Smurfs? That makes no sense at all!

[kaylumlauren]

its defo smurfs