You're Nothing Without Me (From "City of Angels")

You are some gumshoe
You just don't think well
Get this, dumb gumshoe
You come from my inkwell
Is your mouth lonely with one foot in there?
Stone, your brain only holds thoughts I put in there

Just what you are, I'll spell out
You are a novel pain
One speck of lint that fell out
The last time that I picked my brain

You are so jealous of my track record
Tolstoy, do tell us your feeble hack record
Your weak knees brand you soft and unstable
One small threat and you fold like a card table

You drool at my adventures
Your broads in bed are bored
Go home and soak your dentures
Your pen is no match for my sword

You're nothing without me
A no-one who'd go undefined
You wouldn't exist
You'd never be missed
I tell you, you're out of my mind

A show off, a blowhard
You're equal parts hot air and gall
And no one would doubt me
Without me, you're nothing at all

You're in my plot, I'm still your creator
I call each shot, I'm your private dic-tator
You are so thick, you eat, breathe, sleep fiction
I'm your meal ticket, knew-deep in cheap fiction

You gloating ignoramus
You haven't any shame
Hey, I'm a famous shamus
And most people don't know your name

You're nothing without me
Without me you'd just disappear
Right into thin air
And no one would care
Or notice you ever were here

A puppet, an upstart
A loser who's destined to fall
I'm everything you always wanted to be
Let's deal with the issue, you wish you were me
You're nothing without me
Without me, you're nothing at all