Popular Song

Album: Yours Truly (2013)
Charted: 87
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  • La, la
    La, la

    You were the popular one, the popular chick
    It is what it is, now I'm popular-ish
    Standing on the field with your pretty pompons
    Now you're working at the movie selling popular corn
    I could have been a mess but I never went wrong
    'Cause I'm putting down my story in a popular song
    Uh, huh
    Uh, huh, I said I'm putting down my story in a popular song

    My problem, I never was a model
    I never was a scholar
    But you were always popular
    You were singing, all the songs I don't know
    Now you're in the front row
    'Cause my song is popular

    Popular
    I know about popular
    It's not about who you are or your fancy car
    You're only ever who you were
    Popular
    I know about popular
    And all that you have to do, is be true to you
    That's all you ever need to know
    So catch up, 'cause you got an awful long way to go
    So catch up, 'cause you got an awful long way to go

    Always was on the lookout for someone to hate
    Picking on me like a dinner plate
    You hid during classes and in between them
    Dunk me in the toilets now it's you that cleans em'
    You tried to make me feel bad with the things you do
    It ain't so funny when the joke's on you
    Ooh, the joke's on you
    Got everyone's laughing, got everyone clapping, asking
    How come you look so cool?
    'Cause that's the only thing that I learnt at school, boy
    Uh, huh
    I said that's the only thing I learnt at school

    My problem, I never was a model
    I never was a scholar
    And you were always popular
    You were singing, all the songs I don't know
    Now you're in the front row
    'Cause my song is popular

    Popular
    I know about popular
    It's not about who you are or your fancy car
    You're only ever who you were
    Popular
    I know about popular
    And all that you have to do, is be true to you
    That's all you ever need to know
    So catch up, 'cause you got an awful long way to go
    So catch up, 'cause you got an awful long way to go

    All you ever need to know
    You're only ever who you were
    All you ever need to know
    You're only ever who you were (that's all you ever need to know)

    Popular
    I know about popular
    It's not about who you are or your fancy car
    You're only ever who you were

    Popular
    I know about popular
    It's not about who you are or your fancy car
    You're only ever who you were
    Popular
    I know about popular (it's all you ever need to know)
    And all that you have to do, is be true to you
    That's all you ever need to know (it's all you ever need to know) Writer/s: Mathieu Jomphe-Lepine, Michael Holbrook Penniman, Priscilla Renea Hamilton, Stephen Schwartz
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Universal Music Publishing Group, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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