(Hey Jack, if you could
Stand aside for the Prince of Hollywood
Hey fools, gather 'round
Looking down on the Prince of Hollywood)
Who is this shuffling slowly down the boulevard of broken dreams?
He looks familiar but in this town things are rarely what they seem
As laughing people pushed on by I turned to make my own retreat
I was red-faced, I was captive to this crazy on the street
He grabbed my arm and shouted "Don't you know my name?"
[Chorus]
Hey Jack, if you could
Stand aside for the Prince of Hollywood
Hey fools, gather round
You're looking down on the Prince of Hollywood
And in the graveyards of thе famous you'll be haunted by and by
Beforе too long you will surrender to that sweet seductive life
It grabbed my arm and shouted "Don't you know my name?"
[Chorus]
I had a dream, I turned into a self-obsessive fool
Just another legend, face-down in a swimming pool