BEAUTIFY - LYRICS FOR A SONG IN PROGRESS

A few weeks ago, I played a recording of an old song for a friend and frequent collaborator of mine. He said that the vocals reminded him of a specific singer. I'd never noticed the similarity before, but once he brought it up it has been nagging at me. I decided to try playing around with that style a little bit.

I put some lyrics together today, and they just happened to synch up perfectly with something I wrote back when I first switched from guitar to bass for my band.

Usually, I write songs with something in mind, this just sort of made up its own meaning while I was putting sounds together. It is about image over substance, people in the media and in power, and how easily people can get distracted from important things.

It also, right now, goes into a local case for the second 'verse'. There was a young woman who was arrested and was enlisted for a sting. The cops then managed to lose her/get her killed.
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You've got to beautify,
before you testify,
so when you tell a lie,
nobody bats an eye.

Don't want to live with your lies anymore
don't want to get pulled inside,
don't want to live in your lies anymore,
can you look me in the eye?

+Always tried to mean everything that I said
if the opposite were true would I'd be better off dead
tell me, do I have to be a puppet just to get ahead?+

Does it get to you, all the things you say?
Was it set in stone, before you changed?
Does it bother you, all the things you do?
You know you're ugly too.
You need to beautify

Her life was on the line,
she had to drop a dime,
they hung her out to dry,
gagged by the thin blue line

----end, for now

The part in +'s is new, and likely pure placeholder.

Anyway, any comments/constructive criticism would be welcome. I'm new to this structure/style, so there is plenty of room to improve!

By the way, if someone guesses the band that is the major influence for this song, I'll pm them a copy of the track in its larval state, which is kind of lol-worthy right now.

Thanks! It would only be about half or 3/4's rap, though. I was going for a kind of Red Hot Chili Peppers vibe.

Apparently, when I'm not trying to rumble my way through a Johnny Cash style country song, barking and yelping through a punk setlist, or howling over blues metal, my singing voice reminds people of Anthony Kiedis'.

It was news to me, but I've had a couple other people point it out now.