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
She's got too much class for the likes of me I'll stay but don't make me nervous Lost in the haze of yesterdays memory Don't think that you don't deserve us Crying all the way to the bank on the bullet train But crying don't get you nowhere I must be the only man that they couldn't frame
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
This city is a monument to bad taste in vain Hooray for hollywood break, out the search lights above But I couldn't tear myself away, so I can't complain Send out the substitutes, tonight we'll be makin' love Crawling in deaf and dumb for the losers ball Here's to the house on the hill and the thrill of it all Sinking in a tidal wave of alcohol
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