She drove a long way through the night From an urban neighborhood She left her mother in a fight For a dream misunderstood And her friends they talk on corners They could never comprehend
But there was always something different In the way she held a stare And the pictures that she painted Were of glamour and of flair And her boyfriend though he loved her Knew he couldn't quite fulfill He could never meet her there
She's never gonna be like the one before She read it in her stars that there's something more No matter what it takes no matter how she breaks She'll be the Queen of Hollywood
And the cynics they will wonder What's the difference with this dream And the dreams of countless others All believing in TV They see their hand prints in a sidewalk Flashing cameras on the scene And a shining limousine
She's never gonna be like the one before She read it in her stars that there's something more No matter what it takes no matter how she breaks She'll be the Queen of Hollywood
Yeah, yeah, she's believing in a dream It's a loaded fantasy
Now her mother collects cut-outs And the pictures make her smile But if she saw behind the curtains It could only make her cry She's got hand prints on her body Sad moonbeams in her eyes Not so innocent a child
She's never gonna be like the one before She read it in her stars that there's something more No matter what it takes no matter how she breaks She'll be the Queen of Hollywood She's never gonna be like the one before She read it in her stars that there's something more No matter what it takes and even though she breaks She'll be the Queen of Hollywood She is the Queen of Hollywood, the Queen of Hollywood
