(Ooh-wah...) (Ooh-wah...) Bad taste... (Has company.) Bad taste... (Has company.) [VERSE 1] I can make a bad idea look good under fluorescent light. (Ooh...) Velvet-rope vocabulary, mouth full of extraordinary. First-class catastrophe (Five stars.) Five-star personality, I’ve made a whole career out of plausible deniability. (Deny it, deny it...) I’ve made a fine impression on some deeply awful people. Funny how the worst of them always find me charismatic. (Charismatic...) When malice meets mischief, attraction’s automatic. Bad blood knows its own (Ooh-wah...) even dressed up diplomatic. [PRE-CHORUS] I was only being charming... (Charming...) till somebody took me seriously. (Seriously?) I’m a cult of personality (Ooh-wah, ooh-wah...) bad taste loves company. [CHORUS] I’m a minor celebrity (Minor celebrity!) a major liability. (Major liability!) Too much audacity for a room with no capacity. (Ooh-wah...) Low-rent notoriety, high-end impropriety. Nobody knows me in polite society. (They don’t know you...) I’m a minor celebrity— (Minor celebrity!) a major liability. (Major liability!) Too much audacity for a room with no capacity. (No capacity...) [POST-CHORUS] Ooh-wah... minor celebrity. Ooh-wah... major liability. [VERSE 2] Soft launch, hard sell, hot flash, hotel (Ooh...) I can turn a private failure into something that photographs well. Quick wit, slow leak, high cheek, low peak everybody wants a piece of me (Ooh-wah...) but no one wants the custody. Gold star, bad press, best-dressed train wreck public breakdown... (Networking event.) Name tag, gift bag, price tag, body bag (Ooh-wah, ooh-wah...) I’ve got a knack for making every red flag look like swag. Meet-and-greet, missing teeth, smile wide, speak sweet they’re lining up to shake my hand (Shake, shake...) I’m counting fingers as they leave. [BREAK] Don’t get familiar, darling... (Don’t get familiar.) You’re only here to meet the person you invented (Ooh...) when you paid to look at me. [DOO-WOP TURNAROUND] Sha-la-la... Paid to look. Sha-la-la... Now look away. [BRIDGE] Raise a glass, lower standards— (Lower...) let the beautiful offend. I’m nobody worth knowing (Ooh-wah...) till the wrong people recommend. Good name— (Bad influence.) Clean hands (Crooked friends.) I’ve got a face for the occasion and nowhere decent to attend. [BACKGROUND] (Ooh-wah...) No invitation. (Ooh-wah...) No occasion. (Ooh-wah...) Still showed up. [PRE-CHORUS] I was only being charming— (Charming!) till somebody took me seriously. (Seriously!) I’m a cult of personality (Ooh-wah, ooh-wah...) bad taste loves company. [FINAL CHORUS] I’m a minor celebrity (Minor celebrity!) a major liability. (Major liability!) Too much audacity for a room with no capacity. (No capacity!) Low-rent notoriety, high-end impropriety. Nobody knows me in polite society. (Polite society...) I’m a minor celebrity (Minor celebrity!) a major liability. (Major liability!) Too much audacity for a room with no capacity. [FINAL TAG — band cuts, voices remain] (Ooh-wah...) Minor celebrity. (Ooh-wah...) Major liability. Bad taste— (Loves company.) Bad taste— (Loves company.) Bad taste... [hard stop]
