her name was mis-spelled on the marquee but she was the one that we waited to see billy and i, we spent all our dough for two broken seats in the very back row
words were a lie, tears were a fake she stepped on the back of her dress by mistake and she couldn't make the pistol go off the silence was deadly, til somebody coughed
goodbye betty-jean you left town, another fat philistine in your big, sad, american machine
the drama was high, and betty was too she blew all her lines and she missed all her cues she came to the edge of the stage in her slip and said a few words that were not in the script
goodbye betty-jean you left town, another fat philistine in your big, sad, american machine
it's a small town and it's just a matinee this white-trash won't know the difference anyway but billy cried in the men's latrine 'cause stars are few and far between stars are few and far between