Mason Reese

How the great have fallen

See how life has passed them by

Was anybody looking at the crystal ball

When his star was on the rise?

Stuffing his face with

canned ham sandwich spread.

He was on the road to stardom

Stayed a salesman instead.

What Happened?

What makes one kid a star

What makes the other

just another woman's child?

I watch the T.V., watch the fat kid grin.

Watch America go wild.

But he's not the famous child star anymore.

He's just a funny-looking guy at the stereo store.

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The fickleness of fame and fortune's caprice.

Together changed the life of Mason Reese,

(Well, come on).

You can still see Mason in the Underwood ads

at the back of your mind.

Or you can see mason at the Crazy Eddie store

on the Upper West Side.

Watching Gary Coleman and Emmanuel Lewis

He knows how much old dwarf child stars mean to us.

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