Lyrics by Indi Riverflow

Opportunity came and rang my bell
As if I’d won the prize
Oh hell, I guess it’s just as well
That I fell for the disguise

The halo glows, and the hair it flows
Around the elements of a face
Under a nose that never tasted a rose
Despite bouquets all over the place

Don’t get taken in
By those phantom big breaks
Don’t get taken in
And make no mistake
On the fast-track
To a cul-de-sac
In the back
Of a jacked-up Cadillac
Be sure your big break
Don’t break you right back
Yeah, be sure your big break
Don’t break you right back

Hotshot used-song salesman
You really knew how to work the lot
Turn a junkyard into a caravan
And a rowboat into a yacht

You brought tons of talent
And all the right stats
When you rolled up on the welcome mat
Zero to infinity in nothing flat

But integrity, or loyalty
Or whatever you’d call that quality
You didn’t have a lick of that
Oh no, you didn’t have a lick of that

Don’t get taken in
By those phantom big breaks
Don’t get taken in
And make no mistake
On the fast-track
To a cul-de-sac
In the back
Of a jacked-up Cadillac
Be sure your big break
Don’t break you right back
Yeah, be sure your big break
Don’t break you right back

Two back steps for each advance
Doin’ the dirty dance of dissonance
Half an inch away from success
Taunting me like Tantalus

Then Echo rode up on a shiny pony
Sounding like a door slamming shut
Her perfume smelled like alimony
Oozing tons of I don’t know what

So take it with a grain of philosophy
If your ride drives into a ditch
You paid for that lesson in catastrophe
Value hard knocks and you’ll always be rich

Don’t get taken in
By those phantom big breaks
Don’t get taken in
And make no mistake
On the fast-track
To a cul-de-sac
In the back
Of a jacked-up Cadillac
Be sure your big break
Don’t break you right back