Faketown - Joe Purdy

Billy’s been driving all night, he’s got a dream

Wants to live up on the big screen

And just like Jimmy Dean, he’s got his jacket on

And his hair combed just right

But there’s a hundred just like him and audition night is tonight

I wish the walls would come down

I wish the walls would come down

I wish the walls would come down, on what’s left of this faketown

Rosemary’s driving downtown

On something that she heard from some talent scout

She’s been working all day

So she’d pay for those pictures to be done up in the right way

And it was such a shame, when he said that she was just another pretty face

He said no one ever gets nowhere, without shaking it here or there

Honey, life ain’t fair

I wish the walls would come down

I wish the walls would come down

I wish the walls would come down, on what’s left of this faketown

This faketown

Well you can fix your face

You can fix your hair

You can fix your body, with this needle here

And watch them walk around, like a pack of wolves

And they’ll tell you, you ain’t good enough

That it ain’t your fault

They say it ain’t your time

But you just weren’t cut out, for the big time

Now don’t you try, to be yourself

'Cause things like that, they never sell

I wish the walls would come down

I wish the walls would come down

I wish the walls would come down

And I wish the walls would come down

I wish the walls would come down

I wish the walls would come down

I wish the walls would come down

I wish the walls would come down

I wish the walls would come down

I wish the walls would come down

I wish the walls would come down, on what’s left of this faketown, faketown

This faketown, this faketown

This faketown, this faketown

This faketown, this faketown

This faketown, this faketown

Dreary eyes can read and know in the dark

Each street, it’s sign says faketown…

And if ever his heart understood

Next stop Hollywood (???) down by this faketown

He’s drivin' his broken wheels, fallin' heels

But he kept tellin' me it’ll be alright, if she calls