If you try to be an icon

Then the icon becomes you

If you try to be a model

It'll catwalk over you

If you try to walk in straight shoes

Then these shoes will bend you too

If you try to be a kid again

The kid will kidnap you

You know it's true

The guy you know, well that's just you

And there is nothing you can do

Just like a door you can't get through

When there is no one left to fool

Don't go and drown in that old pool

Don't kid yourself

So don't try to be an icon

Con the I inside of you

That picture you've been painting doesn't look a thing like you

I'll agree that it's a nice try

But when your paint is dry

We're all just little icons

Super you and super I

You know it's true

The guy you know, well that's just you

And there is nothing you can do

Just like a door you can't get through

When there is no one left to fool

Don't go and drown in that old pool

Don't kid yourself

Solo

I need someone to show me

Just what I threw away

I need a pretty angel to present it on a tray

You never liked the icon

Said "that guy looked pretty strange"

But you never tried to change me and that's how I've come to change

You know it's true

The guy you know, well that's just you

And there is nothing you can do

Just like a door you can't get through

When there is no one left to fool

Don't go and drown in that old pool

Don't kid yourself

When there is no one left to fool

Don't go and drown in that old pool

Don't kid yourself