Hollywood '55

(Verse)

There's a new cat in town, five foot eight tall

Wrote Ms Hedda Hopper, no relation at all

Cute face, cheekbones, knows how to act

Just signed a long-term movie contract

The studio boss cast the cat real quick

As a juvenile delinquent in a teenage flick

The cat said "Yeah, that's a part I can play"

And they sent him on down to meet old Nick Ray

(Verse)

Well, Nick was in bed with Natalie Wood

At the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood

With his nose in her pie when the cat came by

In his sleek new car and captured her eye

She snuck out and the two went driving around

He leaned in for the kiss and then he went down

She stopped him sharp and said "Hold up hoss

Nick just - you know what - and I ain't had a wash"

(Verse)

His mouth flew back, he drew a sharp breath

It was the end of the innocence, if he had any left

Soon they were dating though it couldn't last

For she wasn't waiting and he was miscast

There were to many ghosts in his restless bones

For the cat to be sated by fame alone

Unknowable wonders, unthinkable days

Were on the way

Unknowable wonders, unthinkable days