After Hollywood
--words and music by Michael Stanley

from "Live In Tangiers", 1998, Razor & Tie


She smiles like it's costing her money
  She laughs like she's wasting her time
Just a small town girl all alone
  on the edge of the night
with a boy back home wondering
  does she think of him tonight...

        And is there life after Hollywood
      Is there love after all
        Is there life after Hollywood
      If there is, please call...

She said someday she'd be somebody
  and everyone they'll know her name
Down the boulevard, running
  hard, chasing after that dream
Ah, but in this town things are
  not ever quite what they seem...

        Is there life after Hollywood
      Is there love after all
        Is there life after Hollywood
      If there is, please call...

Yeah, she's over the line and they
  know it
She'll do anything just for a taste
  Ah, too much too soon and she
  shows it
One more former pretty face...

        Is there life after Hollywood
      Is there love after all
        Is there life after Hollywood
      If there is, please call...

        After Hollywood
      Is there love after all
        And is there life after Hollywood
      Oh, if there is, please call...

        After Hollywood
      Is there love after all
        And is there life after Hollywood
      Oh yeah...  






AFTER HOLLYWOOD (M. Stanley)

From my last solo album, Coming Up For Air. Probably not a story you haven't heard before, but
hopefully a new way of telling it.