Hollywood
Lyrics
- Jon Fratelli
- Lou Hickey
- Jon Fratelli & Lou Hickey
Jon Fratelli: How can it be that I could be lost again?
Here in a town of yesterday's desperate men
All dressed up to go for the final scene
Here comes the dread they fed me in last night's dream
Here in a town of yesterday's desperate men
All dressed up to go for the final scene
Here comes the dread they fed me in last night's dream
Jon Fratelli: She's got too much class for the likes of me
Lou Hickey: I'll stay but don't make me nervous
Jon Fratelli: Lost in the haze of yesterdays memory
Lou Hickey: Don't think that you don't deserve us
Jon Fratelli: Crying all the way to the bank on the bullet train
Lou Hickey: But crying don't get you nowhere
Jon Fratelli: I must be the only man that they couldn't frame
Jon Fratelli & Lou Hickey: I couldn't see the enemy till he was close behind
Waltzing blind, through my mind
And if the lights should freeze, oh please
Don't make it him, or me
Then we'll see
Waltzing blind, through my mind
And if the lights should freeze, oh please
Don't make it him, or me
Then we'll see
Jon Fratelli: This city is a monument to bad taste in vain
Lou Hickey: Hooray for Hollywood, break out the search lights above
Jon Fratelli: But I couldn't tear myself away, so I can't complain
Lou Hickey: Send out the substitutes, tonight we'll be making love
Jon Fratelli: Crawling in deaf and dumb for the losers ball
Lou Hickey: Here's to the house on the hill and the thrill of it all
Jon Fratelli: Sinking in a tidal wave of alcohol
Jon Fratelli & Lou Hickey: How could I miss, it's come to this
Hollywood final scene
Make it clean
And if the lights should freeze, oh please
Don't make it him, or me
Then we'll see
Hollywood final scene
Make it clean
And if the lights should freeze, oh please
Don't make it him, or me
Then we'll see
Jon Fratelli & Lou Hickey: I couldn't see the enemy till he was close behind
Waltzing blind, through my mind
Look out below
This heart will blow
Hollywood style tonight
It don't seem right
Waltzing blind, through my mind
Look out below
This heart will blow
Hollywood style tonight
It don't seem right
Jon Fratelli & Lou Hickey: And if the lights should freeze, oh please
Don't make it him, or me
Then we'll see
Don't make it him, or me
Then we'll see
Credits
Musicians
- Rick Wentworth
- Conductor
- Ross McFarlane
- Drums
- Jon Fratelli
- Guitar, Bass, Vocals
- Perry Montague-Mason
- String leader
- Mark Nightingale
- Trombone
- Derek Watkins
- Trumpet
- Lou Hickey
- Vocals
Production
- Producer
- Jon Fratelli, Stuart McCredie
- Engineering
- Stuart McCredie
- Assistant engineer
- Niall McMenamin
- Mastering
- Ian Cooper
- Mixing
- Tony Hoffer
- Orchestral arrangements
- Mick Cooke
- Additional engineering
- Allan Cuthbertson, Niall McMenamin
Recording information
- Recorded at
- Terminal Music, Glasgow, Playground Studios, Glasgow, Angel Recording Studios, London, Terminal Music, Angel Studios
- Mixed at
- Sunset Sound
- Mastered at
- Metropolis Mastering
