Hollywood Hopeful
Loudon Wainwright III
[Verse] I am a full fledged grown-up adult I’m tryin’ make a dent tryin’ to get a result I’m hold up in a Hollywood hotel suite Tequila to drink and avocado to eat D (with hammer-on) They got all kinds of victories and lots of downfalls They got drugs in the rugs and ghosts in the walls Starlets in the lobby that can make a man drool Blood on the curtains and a phone by the pool (with hammer-on) [Verse] Well I never did see so many TV stars And I never did see so many rented cars I never did see so many desperate eyes And I never did hear so many bold faced lies D (with hammer-on) When I was ten years old I was alive And the Benedict Canyon down on Hutton Drive Well now I’m right back in my old backyard And I’m tryin’ to get a billboard on the boulevard I’m tryin’ to get a billboard on the boulevard (with hammer-on) (with hammer-on) [Verse] Well I never thought I’d see the age of twenty-five And it’s been twenty-eight years now that I’ve been alive And in a matter of months I will be thirty years old And the apprehension that I feel can hardly be told D (with hammer-on) I am a full fledged grown-up adult I’m tryin’ make a dent tryin’ to get a result D Am (hold) I’m hold up in a Hollywood hotel suite Tequila to drink and avocado to eat Tequila to drink and avocado to eat (with hammer-on)