Fifteen Minutes of Fame (final)

Fifteen Minutes of Fame

© Gary Orphey

 (Country)

(Verse 1)

I didn’t know when I fell for you

You thought love was only a game

But I guess that I should thank you

For my fifteen minutes of fame

Making love to you was wonderful

Now it’s time for me to go back

You’re both rich and famous

I’m from the other side of the tracks

(Verse 2)

I thought you were a woman first

A famous person last

I found out the hard way

That money doesn’t buy class

The red carpet was crazy

The wild times were great fun

But when the partying was over

I was an empty son-of-a-gun.

(Lead in)

(Chorus)

Fifteen minutes of fame

With you on my arm

Fifteen minutes of fame

Didn’t do me any harm

Hanging out in your penthouse

Driving your fancy car

When love doesn’t come with it

Doesn’t  carry me very far.

(Instrumental Bridge/Middle Eight)

 (Verse 3)

I’m just a simple country boy

Making my way through life

There's one thing I have learned

I want a country girl for a wife

So I’m making a midnight getaway

I’m tired of this fooling around

I’m going back to my home town

To get my feet back on the ground

(Lead in)

(Chorus)

Fifteen minutes of fame

With you on my arm

Fifteen minutes of fame

Didn’t do me any harm

Hanging out in your penthouse

Driving your fancy car

When love doesn’t come with it

Doesn’t  carry me very far.

This is awesome Gary. Hope you going to find a collaborator for it. Would love

to hear it put to music.

Nice take on the Andy Warhol idea.  It sounds like famous people should hang together, and unknowns should stay with unknowns. 

Thanks Jim...I know what you mean...I went to a few Soiree's for the arts when I was selling abstract art from a big modern gallery in Dallas many years ago.  I met some nice 'real people' I call them, but most  were  not people I wanted to hang with...so I started my own show opening by invitation only events with very nice results.

Some people are just people...some never figure it out.

I think there have been lots of people who thought their famous crushes were people first and famous second, but found out differently pretty quickly, lol. Nice one, Gary :)

Thanks Sheila. Happy to see you hanging out here again. Welcome back!