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They say it's the price of stardom, they say it's the price of fame,

If you want to build a kingdom, they say you have to play the game.

With a click, pop here and an autowind there,

And a makeup man to fix my hair,

A little darkroom magic put a twinkle in my eyes,

Then blow me up to full life size.

I'm a cardboard man, somebody's compulsion,

I'm a cardboard man, trapped in emulsion,

I'm a cardboard man who's full of strife,

'Cause I don't like the two dimensional life!

So they cut me up in little pieces, and put me in a box,

Fully interlocking, money for CBS Fox.

It took a click pop here, and an autowind there,

And a makeup man to fix my hair,

A little darkroom magic put a twinkle in my eyes,

Then they blew me up to full life size!

I'm a cardboard man, somebody's compulsion,

I'm a cardboard man, trapped in emulsion,

I'm a cardboard man who's full of strife,

'Cause I don't like the two dimensional life!

I'm much harder to put together, than I am to take apart,

You just bought a picture, but you got a piece of my heart.

Caught in two dimensions, caught in a strange world,

You know a cardboard man, needs a jigsaw girl!

I'm a cardboard man, somebody's compulsion,

I'm a cardboard man, trapped in emulsion,

I'm a cardboard man who's full of strife,

'Cause I don't like the two dimensional life!