After the Fire - It's High Fashion lyrics

It's high fashion, first they sell you a lie And let you think if you try perhaps they'll let you find it It's high fashion, like tomorrow I say Forever one day away, you'll always be behind it They show us pictures in a glamour book And say that next year this is how we will look I think it's time we got ourselves of their hook It's high fashion, I'm the face of the week Someone to smile but not speak, this is a silent feature It's high fashion, who's that face of the year No-one who comes from round here, they build a special creature Then everyone must try and look like their fake With help from buying all the products they make That way they get the biggest slice of the cake Just at the point when all your money is spent On trying to keep up with the latest of trends They go and change 'round all the fashions again It's high fashion, but it's all back to front They've got us just where they want, that's why we pay their prices It's high fashion - they know if it was gone We would all suffer from an identity crisis And when I told them that I thought it a shame To have to pay so much for looking the same They laughed and said it's really only a game - ho ho ho! If they think that they can sell it - they will