Amelia

Amelia
You are a movie star
Tugging on some heart strings just so you can pay the bills
Your cryin' eyes
Easily synthesized
Stare vacant at the city from your home set deep in the hills

Pacific queen
Set on a silver screen
Only real in photographs, hiding in another's skin
Fake identities
In false realities
Certain of your sentiments as long as they are not your own

But all of your fruit is in season
And your body gets younger each day
But when you recite your lines in the mirror your find
You haven't been yourself much today

Nothing came together like it did on screen
Somewhere all the passion became apathy
A look behind the camera killed the mystery
You're better off living in a childhood dream

Your misery
Is frowned upon you see
When you're the one they turn to to temper all their own
No sympathy

Just stares of jealousy
You'd fill them up with wonder if you'd just play along

But sorrow is only too common
For the glamour of those magazines
And where's the appeal in the way that you feel
If you can't make it glisten and gleam?

Nothing came together like it did on screen
Somewhere all the passion became apathy
A look behind the camera killed the mystery
You're better off living in a childhood dream

There's a hundred people to take your place
And a hundred more you'll always chase
So if you don't believe any words that you say
Just say 'em like you will someday

Nothing came together like it did on screen
Somewhere all the passion became apathy
A look behind the camera killed the mystery
You're better off living in a childhood dream