Screen Kiss - Thomas Dolby

Miller time at the bar where all the English meet

She used to drink in the hills

Only now she drinks in the valleys

Where every road has a name like Beachwood Avenue

or so it seems

A Croydon girl could really hope to find a home

But with a thousand miles of real estate to choose from

You begin to see the value of your freedom…

The moon is bright in the haze above old Hollywood

And deer look down from the hills

And it’s three o’clock in the morning

Pill in hand you can hear his golden surfer voice

Crying out, mummy won’t come out of the bathroom

And you’d hoped he’d say he’s sorry if he hit you

but he’s buried in the screenplay of his feature

Screen kiss, one screen kiss

Straight from a film I forget who was in Screen kiss, one screen kiss

Blue filter lens, a pool of vaseline

But all the rushes look the same

Only there’s a movie I wouldn’t pay to see again

If it’s the one with him in You and I could be a mile above the earth tremors

Hold to me and we’ll climb

You could sneak out while he’s sleeping

Suicide in the hills above old Hollywood

Is never gonna change the world

Change the world overnight

Any more than the invention of the six-gun — child

Any more than the discovery of Radium,

Or California tipping in the ocean

Screen kiss, one screen kiss …