Face on the Cutting Room Floor - Steve Goodman

She is history

No one will give her a star on the walk

She’d have a hundred if pillows could talk

Where have I seen her before?

Well, she’s the face on the cutting room floor

Life’s no mystery

Acting in school at the tenderest age

Lit up the room when she walked on the stage

Came to L.A. for some more

Little face on the cutting room floor

She had visions of contracts

And thousands of people in line.. .

to see her

Knockin' on door after door after all of this time

She’s not sure

Up in Hollywood

Signed with an agent she met in a bar

Laughed when he told her he’d make her a star

Where had she heard that before?

Little face on the cutting room floor

And then, one night he told her she’d never get anywhere

In her clothes

He says, 'That's what it takes to play movieland musical chairs'

So now she knows

Goodbye Hollywood

Leavin' tonight on the 2:30 'Hound

Sunrise on Sunset she won’t be around

I guess that settles the score

And they’ll replace her with two or three more

She’s the face on the cutting room floor

She’s the face on, face on the cutting room floor

Goodbye, Hollywood, Goodbye