Hollywood

I got this idea a while ago. However, it has changed a bit since I thought about it. I always wear rhinestone shades, and one day at work, one of the guys started calling me "Hollywood" and I've wanted to write a song about that nickname ever since. But I wanted it to be different. Since a lot of the songs about Hollywood are about fame and fortune, I decided to go the other route and talk about how life never goes how you plan. Especially when you're a seventeen year old girl in a small town looking for a way out. So, I came up with a story about a girl nicknamed "Hollywood" who learns this lesson the hard way. Music to come. Enjoy.


Hollywood
© 2011 Chelsey Sears 

She grew up in a little town

With one stop-light, leading in and out

Everybody knew she wanted to leave

She walked to school in her rhinestone shades

Countin' down the days

Until she turned eighteen

They call her Hollywood, down at the diner

Where she's waitin' tables, and waitin' for the time

That she'll find out fast her Pontiac can go

Everyone tells her to give it some thought

Before she just up and takes off

But you can't tell her a thing she doesn't already know

'Cause she's seventeen goin' on thirty-five

Feel's like life is passin' her by

She's convinced all her dreams and hopes

Are hidin' somewhere on the west coast

She won't listen to anyone

When they say "I know where you're comin' from

Take a minute, maybe you should

Slow down Hollywood"

She met him on a weekend trip

To the big city and that was it

She had everything figured out

They've already set a date

It's only been six months, but she cant wait

To be with the man she dreamed about

'Cause she's seventeen goin' on thirty-five

Feels like life is passin' her by

But as soon as she takes his name

Everything is gonna change

She won't listen to anyone

When they say "I know where you're comin from

Take a minute, maybe you should

Just slow down Hollywood"

Their love burned out like a cigarette

Last week he packed up and left

Her with an apartment in Arkansas and a worthless ring

Now she's worried about June

'Cause that's when her daughter is due

And before she knows it, her little girl is gonna be

Seventeen going on thirty-five

Feelin' like life is passing her by

She'll be convinced all her dreams and hopes

Are hiding somewhere on the west coast

She's not gonna listen to her mom

When she says "I know where you're comin' from

Take a minute, maybe you should

Just slow down Hollywood"

Slow down Hollywood

They call her Hollywood, down at the diner
She's waitin' tables, and waitin' for the time
That she'll find out how fast her Pontiac can go