I wanna be somebody! If I were somebody
I’d prob’ly have a milliondy friends!
I wanna be somebody, but to be somebody
D-do I have to follow the trends?

The trends seem contrary and so arbitrary.
The favor changes every few months.
There’s one that just started that seems so half-hearted.
Why do I have to act like a dunce?

The one that isn’t any fun,
the one that just seems super dumb
involves hopping on geometric shapes.

It’s so hip
to jump on squares.
You throw them all on the ground.
Why am I hopping around?
Oh baby, it’s so hip.
to jump on squares.
I won’t agree to this fad.
Nosiree I don’t need popularity so bad.

I’ve heard a few other fads that don’t seem nearly quite as bad.
The one involving shaving a goat (On a boat!)
Another started recently that can be pulled off decently
Requires digging, then filling a moat. (Yeah, a moat!)

But then I can’t quite explain, the one that seems like a pain,
the trend of wearing pants made of beef. (Kobe beef!)
From classroom to classroom the latest in fad booms
is eating a whole ream of loose leaf. (With their teef!)

But I’d rather do all of those
than the one I’d like to dispose
of: Hopping on geometric shapes.

It’s so hip
to jump on squares.
You throw them all on the ground.
Why am I hopping around?
Oh baby, it’s so hip.
to jump on squares.
I won’t agree to this fad.
Nosiree I don’t need popularity so bad.

Wearing poison ivy rings and
jalapeño underthings
and playing house with Larry King
and eating rotten chicken wings

Collecting foreign shoulder pads
and ads involving dads and grads
are infinitely not as bad as
understanding why—

It’s so hip
to jump on squares.
You throw them all on the ground.
Why am I hopping around?
Oh baby, it’s so hip.
to jump on squares.
I won’t agree to this fad.
Nosiree I don’t need popularity so bad.