Hollywood Perfume
Hollywood Perfume
Performed by The Pretenders
(Steinberg/Kelly/Hynde)
I went out on the balcony in the middle of the night
The hotel was dark except for just one light
Television burning in the other room
I couldn’t sleep so I put on some of your Hollywood perfume
I went out on the balcony and looked across the way
Some guy was shadow-boxing, he looked like Sugar Ray
I was feeling dizzy, began to swoon
Was it his punch or was it just your Hollywood perfume
BRIDGE:
I feel like a fugitive escaped from my life
Seeking refugee in the sensual heat
These paper-thin walls make me party to calls of love
Wafting through the room
The night jasmine bloom of your Hollywood perfume
I went out on the balcony to clear my head
I was burning up in my queen-sized bed
Down on the strip beneath the billboard moon
Teen-aged girls look for love in the neon, sex and doom
Of your hollywood perfume
I went out on the balcony with your photograph
I dropped it in the pool and that made me laugh
You like your tan but you don’t like to swim
Meanwhile, I feel like I’m drowning in neon, sex and doom
The night jasmine bloom of your Hollywood perfume