Story Behind The Song
The feeling of being too far out of your league but hopelessly in love. This is magnified and personified in the case of an average person and a celebrity.
Song Description
An extra in a movie is in love with the celebrity actress who is out of his league. The narrator wonders what the actress is really like and if he could become a screenwriter or director to win her affection.
| Song Length |
3:55 |
Genre |
Rock - Modern, Pop - Rock |
| Tempo |
Medium Fast (131 - 150) |
Lead Vocal |
Male Vocal |
| Mood |
Ecstatic, Disturbed |
Subject |
Attracted, Crush, Actor |
| Similar Artists |
Weezer, Green Day |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
This is on the soundtrack of your life,
This is just some background in your scene---And I'm just an
extra walking by, don't look the actress in the eye and I
don't have any lines so I can't speak---Whoa-o-o-o-o-o-o-oh--
-But I wonder what you do at night, and I wonder if you're
an empty shell---Are you filled up temporarily, by the
characters I see, or is there someone else in there as well---
Holly-Hollywood Flame, You're the Hollywood Flame--- How
can I be your leading man when I'm always in last place---
Holly-Hollywood Flame, You're the Hollywood Flame---In the
credits I'm just "Guy Walking By Number 47 or 48"---We're
all the stars of our own mind, in the world's lamest, slowest,
boring movie---and no one wants to sit and see, people
sitting staring vacantly, watching other lives on reality TV---
Now I'm working on my fucking movie script, I know some
people who can get it read---and the studio will be so
impressed that they will ask me to direct and then---You will
be my star and my best friend