Genuine Imitation Life Songtext
von Harry Belafonte

Chameleon changing colors, while a crocodile cries
People rubbing elbows bit, never touching eyes
Taking off their marks, revealing still another guise
Genuine imitation life

People buying happiness and manufactured fun
Everybody doing what everybody′s done
People count on people who can only count to one
Genuine imitation life


All the pretty clouds are a lovely shade of black
You find the right direction, someone tears up all the track
People worship crosses, fingers cross behind their back
Genuine imitation life

Genuine imitation life

Old friends get together (old friends get together)
But it's solitaire they play (but it′s solitaire they play)
Everybody's rainbow (everybody's rainbow)
Done in different shades of gray (different shades of gray)
It′s a lovely place to visit (it′s a lovely place to visit)
But I wouldn't want to stay (wouldn′t want to stay)
In a genuine (in a genuine) imitation life (imitation life)

Genuine (genuine) imitation life (imitation life)

Genuine (genuine) imitation life (imitation life)