Porcelain Gods / I Walk On Gilded Splinters (Live At the Alexandra Palace, December 2005) - Paul Weller

Beware false prophets - take a stand!

My fortune cookie cracked up in my hand,

More advice to fill up your head

More empty words from the living dead-

Who seek to explain what can't really be said-

And how disappointed I was

To turn out after all -

Just a porcelain God -

that shatters when it falls-

Too much will kill you - too little ain't enough

You shout my name but I'll call your bluff

Most who see me - see me not for real

We fake & fawn - play games 'til dawn

But I could see what you can see

And I hate too what you hate in me -

And how disappointed I am

To find me part of no plan -

Just a porcelain God -

that shatters when it falls

I shake it off and start again

"Don't lose control" - I tell myself,

Life can take many things away -

Some people will try - and take it all

They'll pick off pieces as they watch you crawl

And how disappointed I was

To turn out after all -

Just a porcelain God -

that shatters when it falls-

That shatters when it falls.