[Verse 1] The leather is cracking, the hair dye is faded He’s dragging an amp that is totally jaded He walks in the dive bar, whispers "Hello L.A." But nobody listens, they look the other way He tunes up his Fender, drenched in the delay Living on memories of a brighter day [Chorus] I don’t need the internet, I don’t need the cloud I used to play fast, I used to play loud The charts are all plastic, the DJs are wrong The world is just waiting to hear my sad song Yeah, I’m still the King... The King of Yesterday [Verse 2] He hands out a demo on a cassette tape To a kid in a beanie who’s lost in a vape "It's pure Rock and Roll, kid, it's straight from the heart" The kid just sighs, barely playing his part "Where are the people? Where is the line?" He checks on his watch like it's nineteen-eighty-nine [Chorus] I don’t need the internet, I don’t need the cloud I used to play fast, I used to play loud The charts are all plastic, the DJs are wrong The world is just waiting to hear my sad song Yeah, I’m still the King... The King of Yesterday [Bridge] The reverb is washing the silence away The stadium is empty, everything’s grey Inside his head, he can hear the applause But out here it’s quiet... lost in the pause [Chorus] I don’t need the internet, I don’t need the cloud I used to play fast, I used to play loud The charts are all plastic, the DJs are wrong The world is just waiting to hear my sad song Yeah, I’m still the King... The King of Yesterday [Outro] Just let it ring... King of Yesterday...
