Johnny wanna be a big star   get on stage and play the guitar    make a little money buy a fancy car   a big old house and a alligator   just to match with them alligator shoes   Hes a rich man so hes no longer singing the blues   he singin songs about material things...    And platinum rings and watches that go bling,    but diamonds dont bling in the dark    he a star now, but he aint singin it from the heart    Sooner or later hes just gonna fall apart    cause his fans cant relate to his new found art    He aint doin what he did from the start    and thats putting in some feeling and thought    he decided to live his life shallow    cash in his love for material    and it's gone       chorus ( jack johnson )       gone going gone...everything gone give a damn    gone be the birds when they dont want to sing    gone people    up awkward with their things....gone       you see yourself in the mirror    and ya ...feel safe cause it looks familiar    but ya ...afraid up to open up your soul    cause ya ...dont really know, to really know    who is ... the person thats deep within    cause you content with just being the nave brown man    thought to see that its trivial, insignificatnt you addicted to material    I seen your kind before    your the type that thinks souls is sold in the store    packaged up with inscence sticks with a vegetarian meal to you thats rightious    your fiction like books , need to go out to life and look    cause uh... what happens when they take your material , and you already sold your soul    and its....       chorus ( jack johnson )    gone going gone...everything gone give a damn    gone be the birds when they dont want to sing    gone people    up awkward with their things....gone       you say that time is money and money is time    so you got your mind on your money and your money on your mind    but what about that crime you did to get paid    and what about that bid you cant take it to your brain       ( jack johnson )    what about those shoes your in today, they will be no good, on the bridges you've walked along the way       all that money that you got    gonna be gone    yah..    That gear that you rock    gonna be gone    that house up on the hill    gonna be gone    the gold purse on your grill    gonna be gone    the ice on your wrist    gonna be gone    that nice little miss    gonna be gone    that whip that you roll ...    gonna be gone    whats worst is your soul already gone...    (yeah it's gone)      chorus ( jack johnson )    gone going gone...everything gone give a damn    gone be the birds when they dont want to sing    gone people    awkward with their things....gone