| He wasn't lookin' for fanfare or fame but it all came around just the same. | |
| He then met a girl with desire in her eye, he gave her love, she took his name. | |
| The times they were good, the times they were bad, most times it was just in between. | |
| The hard pill he swallowed was the times that they had, she put on display for all to be seen. | |
| Some find their solace in work or the lord, she was quite content in her dream. | |
| When his eyes they burned from the bright lime light, he found comfort in the bottle of | |
| Ol' Jimmy | |
| Beam. One day from the depths of his deep darkened hole, he reached out for something to feel. | |
| She offered back nothin' but lack of respect so he left himself out with two barrels of steel. | |
| She cried in the day, she cried in the night. | |
| She cried loudest when someone was near. | |
| Whether crying for him or she cried for herself, the bigger the camera, the bigger the tear. | |
| Most folks agree that she was living a hell and publicly she showed her pain. | |
| And never once was there a thought for herself, and the ever-growing slices of fortune and fame. | |
| Now on the coattails of a dead man she'll ride on the coattails of a dead man she'll ride. | |
| On the coattails of a dead man she'll ride she'll ride, on the coattails of a dead man she'll ride she'll ride high. |