This Ain't Hollywood - Lyrics
TELL ME YOU LOVE ME

(Before You Hang Up The Phone)

Saw you workin at the record store
Thea I met you on the dancin' floor
You caught my eye when you gave me a glance
The kiss you blew started our romance

Don't ever break my heart
Cos' you promised from the start
Don't ever break my heart

I remember seeing you on the street
Your the girl that I wanted to meet
Glitter and sparkle ya yer so divine
Your my baby and I'm glad that you're mine

Tell me you love me
Before you hang up the phone
Whisper a kiss and I'll pretend that
your lips are softly touching me
Just like when we're alone
Tell me you love me
Before you hang up the phone
Say that you care and you'll always be there
And you'll never leave me alone.

Everytime that you look at me
I feel somethin' that I just can't see
I call you on the telephone
Come over please cos' there's no one else home

Can't you see how you make me feel
My one and only and my love Is real
You turn me on more than rock and roll
Gave you my heart and I'll give you my soul

My love ain't no cliche
Your the girl I want to stay
Yes my love ain't no cliche

Tell me you love me ....

THIS AIN'T HOLLYWOOD

Dolled up in neon strut your wares down the street
All the nouveau stars and starlets starin' at your sweet

You pot an underground Babylon of rock and roll
Always catch the last set to play as the night gets old

Chorus:
Oh babe, It may be quite good
But it's not quite as good as It should
Oh babe, It ain't Hollywood

Now I got a band I'll take to where the noise don't stop
Loud coloured lights so bright that's where I wanna bop
The glamour and the fashion so hot it Just makes you shake
Who cares about tomorrow It's Just another chance you take

This ain't Hollywood you know It's only New York
This ain't Hollywood you know it's only L.A.
This ain't Hollywood you know It's Montreal
This ain't Hollywood It ain't no good at all

Friends and fans and faces swoon to meet

By the powder room
As the limousine drives me to the after hours room
To the after hours room.

DON'T HIDE YOUR FACE

Don't hide your face tell me are you lookin' to me
Or Just smllln' through me
Remember you used to look away like I wasn't there
I was a shadow In a crowd
I wasn't playing quite so loud
And now I hear you drop my name, you
think you call me by the real one, It's not the same
How could you ask me what Is new?
Just to pretend that you're a friend? I remember you
What you used to say, what you used to do

Sometimes you hear me on the radio and you think
that my voice screams out to you
And when you turn on the T.V. set at night
You know just where I'm going to

Cos' baby you Just can't make love to a paper doll
and you can't kiss a picture on the screen
I'm no cheshire cat from some wicked fairy tale
Just ask little six year old Norma Jean.

I got no time to look through my past for things that didn't last
I can only look to the future
If you want you can drop your mask to show the face
you hide, inside, it hasn' died
as the other one that told the lies.

MEMORY LANE

Every time I see your picture on the t.v. screen
I don't care who will be king or who will be the queen
I won't stop and stare
I'm far away but not there
I don't care about the prince you marry
I don't care whose kid It is you carry
I don't care cos' I can live without them
I read it in the papers, yes I read all about them

Elvis died, you'd sold his soul, you Just had a piece
John Lennon died for rock and roll now the kids won't let him rest In peace
I won't stop and stare
Cos' I'm not quite all there
I don't buy no plastic busts of Elvis
Damn the bastard who sells locks of his hair
I read it in the papers yes I read all about them
Death moneymakers check their stocks and shares
I won't stop and stare
I'm not really there

New Romantics a way of making income
Six hundred suit guarantees you won't look like a bum
Mighty corporations I can hear them laughing
Marketing managers got you under their thumb

SURFIN' ON HEROIN

Annette and Frankie went to junkie beach
Lots of smack was so close to reach
Shot up at a Lua down at Waikiki
Freakin' at the sunset now they're hap-happy
Met Eric Zipper introduced him to me now
I'm surfin' on heroin
Lots of smack was so close to reach
Shot up at a Lua down at Waikiki
Freakin' at the sunset now they're hap-happy
Met Eric Zipper introduced him to me now
I'm surfin' on heroin

I'm so f -- d up I can't remember my name
Tried It once I'll never feel the same
I'm swimmin' In a sea of puke
Lend me a quarter play myself on the Juke
Got my kid brother hooked yesterday
Pimping him pays for my habit today

I'm surfin' on heroin
I'm surfin' on heroin
Get a needle gonna stick It In
I'm surfing on heroin
I'm so drugged up, I'm so f -- d up
I'm surfin' on heroin

THE ME GENERATION

Sally sixteen thinks she's a star
Spends lots of time in a bar
Or in a drive in restaurant
Never lets a greaser by in his car
Jim's tough in his redneck shirt
His face half covered in dirt
He thinks he's tough when he knows he's stoned
But he's never quite so alert

Chorus:
The future of the world lies with
this boy and girl
Ain't your head in a whirl when you
look at this boy and at this girl
Cos' they're the me generation
They're the a -- s of the eighties
They're the me generation
They'll be lonely old men and ladies
They're the me generation
Are we old or are we crazy?
Are we crazy? Are we crazy?

Jill's parents they got a divorce they both found somebody else
Ain't that quite an example to set for the kids
Fuck everyone' Just love yourself.
Joe Rocker says he gets sex a lot
But we know he's full of shit
But he's got lots of high school groupie kids
Who really think that he's it.
The future of the world lies
with this boy and girl ....

RHONA BARRETT

Watchin' the Urge playin' rock and roll
I met her hangin' out in the back row
there's a party at Sharky's do you wanna go
We were rockin' with Brucie on the radio


Then she flashed her big brown eyes
I held her hand and to my surprise
She's the slickest glamour doll on the punk rock scene
She's got a neon dream, She's a fashion queen
When she gives me just a kiss
I start shaking till I bite my lip

Chorus:
Now everybody knows I'm in love with her
Now Rhona Barrett tells I'm in love with her
All of rock and roll knows I'm In love with her
I fell In love with her at a rock and roll show

ENGLAND KEEP YER STARS

I remember you so many years ago
What I saw in you I don't know
I saw stars when I opened your door
They landed on our fair shores
Their novel accents made them so rich
While I'm stuck playing In a rotting ditch
Now London don't swing like a pendulum do
England keep yer starts

Chorus:
So won't you keep yer stars
England Keep yer stars
Won't you keep yer stars
England keep yer stars

Two days later says she'll be my girl
Think I found my place I wanna be with her
She's got a real classy personality
I wanna hold her tight when she's walkin' with me
Every time I look at her and every time I hold her hand
I wanna tell her things that I'll never tell no one
She's got a neat way of makin' it so fun
Since she's walked in to my life
I don't even need to think twice

The girl I was lookin' for all along
I can't tell her every thing in this song
I'll always be true to her
There ain't nothing I won't do for her

Through Canada and America they played the biggest arena
They took money from our pocket then they got ripped off
I wanna be so bloody rich, I wanna be a snob
and make my wife a bitch
Now London don't swing like a pendulum do
England keep.yer stars

Radio loves the English bands
Radio loves the American bands
Have they censored Canada to get their money from foreign lands?
Rebels like us who have it rough
Canadian radio will not play our stuff
Now New York don't swing like a pendulum do
England keep yer stars

YOUR OWN LITTLE WORLD

They watch the sunlight burn holes in the city nights
They seen their daydreams all Just blow away
Stare through the window, see emptiness standing still
As they hide In their own little world
Is It a passion, for limelight that's growing cold
Lackluster fashion, is their style getting old
Into a minor, their tons love them from afar
As they hide In their own little world.

Pick up a guitar on a day when It's starting to rain
Ain't got no more songs of lay only more songs of metro refrain
Life is a movie show human drama of loss and of gain
No matter where you go there is genius and there is insane
But at least there's no shortage of pain so whisper through softly
Ever so softly as you hide, hide, hide In your own little world.

Caged In a feeling of impending loneliness
Turn on the T.V. Is It your only friend?
Yesterdays novelty, that finally wore away
Now you hide In your own little world
Dying In public, but don't tell no superstar
No one's forgiven, still you don't know who you are
Look at the children, they walk by the record stores
As you hide in your own little world.

National Enquirer writes fairy tales, your life It was good
No more, no more rock and roll It Just faded off from your childhood

Life is a movie show human drama of loss and of gain
No matter where you go there is genius and there is Insane
But at least there's no shortage of pain so whisper through softly
Ever so softly and kiss your tomorrows goodbye as you lay down your
head and you cry as you hide, hide,
hide In your own little world.

IT WON'T BE LONG

It won't be long until you see me again
It won't be long until your rockin' again
It won't be long until you're dancin' again
Just think about me when you f - - k other

it won't be long until a while from now
I know you'll last but I don't know how
When you're in love with such a glamourous star
1 even gave you a ride in my car

Chorus:
No no no no no no no no no no
It won't be long until you see me again!

Kiss my picture and I'll love you again
Do you think about me when you're alone?
Do you think about me when you're at home?
Do you think about me when you're with friends?
Am I a doll? Am I the living end?

Blow me a kiss and send It In the mall
I'll send one back honey I won't fall
Make it good cos' I'm goin' away
If you get lucky I'll be back In a day

No no no no no no no no no
It won't be long until you see me again!