How the great have fallen,
See how life has passed them by
Was anybody looking in 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 saw the TV
Watch the fat kid grin
Watch America go wild!
But he's not the famous child star anymore,
He's just the funny looking guy in the stereo store
The fickleness of fame and fortune's caprice
Together changed the life of Mason Reese
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 Emannuel Lewis
He knows how much old dwarf child stars mean to us
The fickleness of fame and fortune's caprice
Together changed the life of Mason Reese