Story Behind The Song

Response to a trip to LA.

Song Description

How everywhere has its own 'Hollywood' legends - and talent.

Lyrics

Enough Hollywood
© 2015 by Jamie E. Ambrose

Have you heard the story about little Billy Jones?
Daddy owned a car lot, promised wheels of his own.
Got a brand-new T-bird on the day he turned 16
Never saw the headlights coming, just like Jimmy Dean.
Just like Jimmy Dean...

His sister Marilyn, well she's a nervous wreck:
All she needs is love but all she ever gets is sex.
And old Miss Greta who lives on down the road
Had her picture in the papers, now she wants to be alone.

(Chorus)
So you can keep your LA freeway
You can keep your Sunset Boulevard
They don't matter - not now and no way
There's enough Hollywood here in our backyard
Ooh, ooh, ooh

We got handprints in the pavement outside Louie's bar
No one ever signed them, so we all know who's they are.
Got our own season premiere when the prom rolls into town:
You can't move for the limos, red carpets all around.

(Chorus)
(Bridge)
We may not have big letters sitting high upon a hill
But the stories here don't fade to black - you know they never will...

All the stars I'll ever need are right up in the sky
And instead of bright lights I'll take a thousand fireflies
The fame I'm looking for, you're holding in your hands
With a happy ending that blows the doors off Disneyland

(Chorus)
So you can keep your LA freeway
You can keep your Sunset Boulevard
They don't matter - not now and no way
There's enough Hollywood - Hollywood
(Repeat Chorus to 'backyard', then)
You know we've got enough Hollywood, Hollywood
D-D-Don't you know we got enough Hollywood, Hollywood - Hey!
Oooh, ooh, ooh.
(Ad lib to 'here in our backyard)