Dull Tinseltown Lyrics

She hides the lenses and mirrors in her liquor cabinet

And she repels all that loose change like a magnet

Snap in her face so that she swallows her pills

Since her father was stone and her mother saw skill

Lobbing those insults that make her real pretty

She's looking for trapdoors to get out of this city

Decades of torture reside on a screen

They covered her bruises with makeup and lights

She wanted to stop at minute fourteen

Someday they'll pay for their red carpet crimes

In this dull Tinseltown, there is no sound mind

She was just dying to see the bride of day

But secretive comfort gave her nothing to say

Nobody's eyes dared to speak of her tears

But violent outbursts weren't the real source of fear

Though they might've dropped like flies

There was one born every minute

She knew the machine ran on their unbridled avarice

She knew their glances were judgmental and amorous

From the walls of the soldiers to the linoleum floors

She considered hanging her bloodied rings up on the door

Decades of torture reside on a screen

They covered her bruises with makeup and lights

She wanted to stop at minute fourteen

Someday they'll pay for their red carpet crimes

In this dull Tinseltown, there is no sound mind

Nothing these posters can't conceal

Not even that pretty lack of pulse

Then they tore her name down from the lights

But I'll spare you the details

Decades of torture reside on a screen

They covered her bruises with makeup and lights

She wanted to stop at minute sixteen

Someday they'll pay for their red carpet crimes

In this dull Tinseltown, there is no sound mind

In this dull Tinseltown, there is no sound mind

In this dull Tinseltown, there is no sound mind