Fantasy Man

Alice Cooper

I don't drink tea or white chablis
I sit around and watch tv
Don't send flowers or take showers
But I'll be there to pull your weeds

Oh yeah

I don't read books, I don't french cook
Or stroll around in galleries
I hate opera, I hate Oprah
Don't fill my head with poetry

You just want to squeeze my masculinity
Why can't you leave it alone

Hey, hey I ain't gonna change
Hey, hey don't you love it this way
Hey, hey I am what I am
So please understand, I'm not you fantasy man

I don't do dishes and I'm suspicious
Of any grown-up man who does
I'm homophobic, don't do aerobics
Just lay around and catch a buzz

You just want to squeeze my masculinity
Why can't you leave it alone

Hey, hey I ain't gonna change
Hey, hey don't you love it this way
Hey, hey I am what I am
So please understand
I'm not you fantasy man
Hey, hey I ain't gonna change
Hey, hey don't you love me this way
Hey, hey I am what I am
So please understand
I'm not your fantasy man
Hey
Hey hey
Hey
Hey hey


You just want to squeeze my masculinity
Why can't you leave it alone

Hey, hey I ain't gonna change
Hey, hey don't you love me this way
Hey, hey I am what I am
So please understand
I'm not you fantasy man

Hey, hey I ain't gonna change
Hey, hey don't you love me this way
Hey, hey I am what I am
So please understand
I'm not you fantasy man


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    This song makes fun of toxic masculinity via a hypermasculine strawman. Ironically, his own masculinity is so fragile he lives a very limited life. He can't even do the dishes without feeling like less of a man. He unrealisticly expects a woman to love him as a fat slob. He wants her to change what she wants and refuses to change anything himself lest it shatter his fragile masculinity.

    Greymalkinon October 30, 2023   Link
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    This song is about the guy I just broke up with... I mean no, but it's about a guy who is saying to a girl that he's not the guy she wants, he's who he is, and he won't change.

    RainbowDemonon February 23, 2005   Link

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