Mason Reese

by Alice Donut

From the album: Donut Comes Alive

Track 3 of 16 on Donut Comes Alive (1988).

Duration: 2:30

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Lyrics for Mason Reese

How the great have fallen, see how life has passed them by. Was anybody looking in the crystal ball, when his star was on the rise. Stuffing his face with canned ham sandwich spread. He was on the road to stardom, stayed a salesman instead. What happened? What makes one kid a star? What makes the other just another woman's child? I saw the TV. Watch the fat kid grin. Watch America go wild! But he's not the famous child star anymore, he's just the funny looking guy in the stereo store. The fickleness of fame and fortune's caprice together changed the life of Mason Reese. You can still see Mason in the Underwood ads, at the back of your mind. Or you can see Mason at the Crazy Eddie store, on the Upper West Side, watching Gary Coleman and Emannuel Lewis. He knows how much old dwarf child stars mean to us. The fickleness of fame and fortune's caprice together changed the life of Mason Reese.

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  2. World Profit
  3. Mason Reese
  4. Great Big Big Big Head
  5. Diet Cola Syringe
  6. New Jersey Exit
  7. American Lips
  8. Windshield Of Love
  9. Mad Dogs on a Bone
  10. Joan of Arc
  11. Bedpost
  12. Sunshine Superman
  13. Love Is a Fickle Thing
  14. Tipper Gore
  15. Death Shield - Live
  16. I Want Your Mother - Live