KID HOLLYWOOD (Michael Parker and Jerry Hughes)

Like a leaf blown up against a chain link fence, your name sticks in my mind
A faded 80s photograph; a tape I can’t rewind
That laugh, the smile, the way you stole the scene and left no clues
remanded to a few words on page two

Years of forced publicity
then tortured anonymity
Left a portrait of pubescent cool
Face down in a pool

Hey (Hooray) Kid Hollywood
You saw the top on your tippy toes
Hey (Hooray) Hollywood
What choice did you have when the door swung closed
A scripted life, with a twisted end
We were so young then, when you were so young then

At that awkward age when stars and pimples, rise just to explode
You thought you had it all under control
Tabloid truths and rumors flew and you vanished with no trace
A punchline to a joke so dark we’re still scared to make

But in posters scotch-taped to our minds
And magazines from simpler times
And dusty diaries no one reads
You’re still a teenage dream

Chorus

You made it look too easy
splashing round and cashin’ checks
headin’ toward the deep end
With an anchor ‘round your neck

Hey (Hooray) Kid Hollywood
You saw the top on your tippy toes
Hey (Hooray) Hollywood
What choice did you have when the door swung closed
A scripted life, with a twisted end
We were so young then, when you were so young then
We were so young then, when you were so young then
We were so young then, when you were so young then