Hollywood

Not too long ago

West Coast dreaming

Too fictitious futures you composed

In your ancient prose

And I can't seem to keep you close

I don't recognize ya

You're so Hollywood

You're gone for good

And I'm stuck in nostalgia

It's not the silver screen

We're not seventeen anymore

So who you think you're fooling?

You think you're Marilyn Monroe?

You're wearing someone else's clothes

But that's just how they do it

Your skin is not your own

Another California clone

I don't recognize ya

You're so Hollywood

You're gone for good

And I'm stuck in nostalgia

It's not the silver screen

We're not seventeen anymore

It's so stale

The things they try to sell

The whistles and the bells

It's so stale

Melodramatic flare

I guess it's just so tantalizing, fantasizing

I don't recognize ya

You're so Hollywood

You're gone for good

And I'm stuck in nostalgia

It's not the silver screen

We're not seventeen no more

I don't recognize ya

I'm stuck in nostalgia

Hollywood, Hollywood, oh