They're All the Same Songtext
von Alan Cumming

Thank you
Thank you very much

THAT! THAT! Ladies and Gentlemen
Is was the kids today are calling a ′mashup'
And it was, for those of you who didn′t realise
Three different songs, it was
Adele, 'Someone Like You'
Lady Gaga′s, ′Edge of Glory'
And Katy Perry′s masterwork, 'Firework′


Now, I'm not being facet- well I am being facetious
But I love- I love all those songs
I wouldn′t have sung them otherwise
But, the reason that, uh, we did this mashup
Uh, Lance and I made it up
And it was because ONE TIME
A few years ago
All these songs were kind of released kind of around the same time
And we were in a club somewhere
And the DJ kind of played them almost consecutively
And I was standing there and I just thought
"They're all the fucking same"
And so, I decided to do this mashup
Just to prove it

But
Y'know
That′s not a judgement
I mea- it is a judgement, it is a judgement
But, (laughs)
But y′know, everybody does it!
Y'know like the-
Everyone regurgitates and recycles and bottles
And, our culture′s very old
There's only so many chord structures in the world
And even the most ventilated and amazing and revered
Musical theatre GENIUSES
Like, y′know, say Stephen Sondheim
Writes song that kind of all sound the same
For example