Well, your cd collection looks shiny and costly.
How much did you pay for your bad moto guzi?
And how much did you spend on your black leather jacket?
Is it you or your parents in this income tax bracket?

Now tickets to concerts and drinking at clubs,
Sometimes for music that you havent even heard of.
And how much did you pay for your rocknroll t-shirt
That proves you were there,
That you heard of them first?

How do you afford your rocknroll lifestyle?
How do you afford your rocknroll lifestyle?
How do you afford your rocknroll lifestyle?
Ah, tell me.

How much did you pay for the chunk of his guitar,
The one he ruthlessly smashed at the end of the show?
And how much will he pay for a brand new guitar,
One which hell ruthlessly smash at the end of another show?
And how long will the workers keep building him new ones?
As long as their soda cans are red, white, and blue ones.
And how long will the workers keep building him new ones?
As long as their soda cans are red, white, and blue ones.

Aging black leather and hospital bills,
Tattoo removal and dozens of pills.
Your liver pays dearly now for youthful magic moments,
But rock on completely with some brand new components.

How do you afford your rocknroll lifestyle?
How do you afford your rocknroll lifestyle?
How do you afford your rocknroll lifestyle?

Excess aint rebellion.
Youre drinking what theyre selling.
Your self-destruction doesnt hurt them.
Your chaos wont convert them.
Theyre so happy to rebuild it.
Youll never really kill it.
Yeah, excess aint rebellion.
Youre drinking what theyre selling.
Excess aint rebellion.
Youre drinking,
Youre drinking,
Youre drinking what theyre selling.