I'm a poor starving artist, I ain't got a dime Society kicks me around all the time I'm misused and mistreated and misunderstood At the end of the story I'm bound to make good 'Cause the world is just a B movie About my life and times The world is just a B movie And I keep forgetting my lines My parents they hid me til I was sixteen Inside a front loading washing machine They kept me inside it when company'd come My brother and sister used me for a drum I sat myself down in my good barber's chair When someone yelled out Don't you cut that boy's hair Put down those clippers or I'll fracture your jaw But it was just Sonny Bono disguised as the law Well, the world is just a B movie And it almost breaks my heart The world is just a B movie And I only got a bit part My woman she sticks me with needles and pins She likes to argue as long as she wins She burns me with matches and laughs when I cry And calls me a quitter when I start to die King Kong and Godzilla got nothing on Lind They're all big and hairy and die in the end I compare myself to them, my friends say I'm wrong They say I haven't got the good looks of King Kong Well, the world is just a B movie About my life and times The world is just a B movie And I keep forgetting my lines When I play my music the people charge me I get last place in dog shows and live in a tree But the heaviest problem that's weighing on me Is the boredom of going from A 7th to D Well, the world is just a B movie About my life and times The world is just a B movie And I keep forgetting