Marshall Crenshaw

Steel Strings

Marshall Crenshaw


Well all those nights they hit rock bottom 
The songs they sang, well, we forgot 'em 
You could hear them play with shaky hands 
guitars strung up with rubber bands 
Singing do you want a man of steel? 
or do you want a man that's real 
They used to play in the courts of kings 
Now they're only made of steel when they're 
on Steel Strings 
They used to be on every schoolgirl's wall 
and they never dropped the beat at all 
They could make it soar, they could make it hot 
Once they got started they could never stop 
Singing, do you want a man of steel or 
Do you want a man that's real? 
Some of them hide when the doorbell rings 
They're only made of steel when they're on steel strings 
playing the man on steel strings 
Were you expecting maybe Superman? 
The best they do is the best they can 
The manager's doing time in jail (applause) 
And the pink Cadillac is up for sale 
Singing do you want a man of steel 
or do you want a man that's real 
They try their hands at a thousand things 
but they're only made of steel 
when they're on steel strings