Lost in Hollywood

This is an unusual story without much of a a point, except to remind me later on of a song I like and how I came to know it. One Saturday morning, I woke up to blaring loud music outside my bedroom window. Now, I like to sleep in on Saturday, and some prick was messing up my carefully made plans. I knew who it was - the neighbor lady's loser on-again, off-again boyfriend. He likes to go outside and sit in his jeep in her driveway and play music and smoke. One would think that if he liked her, he'd be inside with her, but I digress. Sounds like some other neighbors that a friend of mine has mentioned in his blog. Anyway, loser-boy was playing this really loud music. The funny thing was that my sleep fogged brain was really liking this song. As with many of the songs that I immediately like, it had pitch bends, but just vocal ones. Anyway, I woke up a little more and caught some of the lyrics - "You should never have trusted Hollywood". After a little Googling, I found out that it was System of a Down, a band that I'd heard of but never known any of the songs sung by. The song was Lost in Hollywood and it's really pretty good. The lyrics are not too nice, but the flow of the words, along with the vocal harmony really interests me. One of the things that I often do is listen to the sound of the words without really processing their meaning. Sometimes this is because I just can't understand the words, but sometimes it's because I don't care what they are saying - I just like the sounds. Anyway, Yahoo has a clip of the song at http://music.yahoo.com/track/19212171. A bit more of it is here.

Here are the lyrics as found on http://www.ratajlyrics.com. Trust me when I say that it is a much better song when you ignore what they are saying (it's kind of stupid) and just listen to the sound and harmony.

"Lost In Hollywood"

[Daron moans a little bit]

I'll wait here,
You're crazy,
Those viscious streets are filled with strays,
You should have never gone to Hollywood.

They find you,
Two time you,
Say your the best they've ever seen,
You should have never trusted Hollywood.

I wrote you,
And told you,
You were the biggest fish out here,
You should have never gone to Hollywood.

They take you,
And make you,
They look at you in disgusting ways,
You should never trusted Hollywood.

[Serj moans now]

I was standing on the wall,
Feeling ten feet tall,
All you maggots smoking fags on Santa Monica Boulevard,
This is my front page,
This is my new age,
All you bitches put your hands in the air and wave them like you just don't care.

All you maggots smoking fags on Sunset Boulevard.

All you bitches put your hands in the air and wave them like you just don't care.

Phoney people come to play,
Look at all of them beg to stay,
Phoney people come to pray.

[Serj and Daron Harmonize]

Phoney people come to pray.

All you maggots smoking fags on Santa Monica Boulevard,
All you maggots smoking fags out there on Sunset Boulevard.

All you maggots smoking fags on Hollywood Boulevard.

You should have never trusted Hollywood.
You should have never gone to Hollywood.

All you bitches put your hands in the air and wave them like you just don't care.

You should have never trusted Hollywood.