to before

*** to before ***
Strip time from celebrity tears
Take us back to first innocence
Return to before
Before the drugs and stupidity
Grand standing culpability
Jailhouse sad snapshots
Late-night comedian cheap shots
To the talent freshly found
Before every utterance had to be profound
Before corporates opened their doors
Before the hanger-ons and whores
When the dream was another show
Not getting money for more blow
You appeared under headline of singer
Not twice divorced no longer a winner
As quickly as they build you up
Aim to bring you down
Need new headlines every day
Will publish what gossips say
To lowest common denominator pander
Every line a new form of slander
Tortured and misquoted
Your peaks outweighed by troughs
Until unsure who you are or were
Another talented moth
Lured then burnt by glow of fame.