Nobody Looks Like That Anymore

Nobody looks like that anymore

You look at those old movie stars
Those old people

With those chins

Those chins?

Nobody has those chins anymore

We have genetically

We have--

We have systematically

And genetically

Gotten rid of

Chins like the kind you used to see

In the 1930’s, 1940’s--

I mean, you just don’t see

Chins like those anymore

You’ve got a completely different look

Going on now

You see my eyelids?

You think you can get work

With eyelids like these?

Why do you think
I’m going in

To Dr. Temple

On Thursday?

You think it’s because I like having six hours of surgery

Just so I can get a few more jobs

Before I get sent off

To some commune

Some ashram

Some whatever

--Because I’m not ready to give up yet?

Because I’m not willing

To call it quits?

I have to have my eyelids done

I have to have my shoulders done

I have to have my knees done

My knees, I’m not kidding

It’s crazy

It’s crazy what you have to--

And I’m playing along with it

I can’t be all innocent about this

I can’t act like

I’m not contributing

To this--

To all this--bullshit

Because I am

I know I am

And I’m not proud of it

But you know

The people out there

Who could change the rules--

And those people do exist

They are out there

They’re not doing shit about it

About the rules

I mean

They’re not moving a finger

To fix any of this

And so I have to have

A consultation

Where some overpriced surgeon

Discusses whether or not

I should make my tits a little bigger

While I’m in recovery

For an eyelid reduction

I mean, it is nuts

And, you know, if most of these people

These stars

These movie stars

From years ago

If they tried to make it today--

Do you know what they would do

To Greta Garbo

If she showed up in Hollywood today?

Do you know what they would do

To her fucking eyelids?

It would be brutal

It would be absolutely brutal

And they’d probably admit it

They’d probably say

It was necessary

Because nobody looks like that anymore

And--here’s the kicker--

Nobody wants to

Some of the most gorgeous people

The most beautiful humans

Who have ever walked the earth

And nobody looks like them anymore

And nobody wants to

That’s the sin of it, you know

That’s the real sin

That’s the thing, where

If you think about it too much

It’ll fuck you up

It’ll really

Really

Fuck you up