Overall about difficult moments of disappointment and vulnerability. Having hope and longing, while remaining optimistic for the future. Encourages the belief that with each new morning there is a chance for things to improve.
The chorus offers a glimmer of optimism and a chance at a resolution and redemption in the future.
Captures the rollercoaster of emotions of feeling lost while loving someone who is not there for you, feeling let down and abandoned while waiting for a lover. Lost with no direction, "Now I'm up in the air with the rain in my hair, Nowhere to go, I can go anywhere"
The bridge shows signs of longing and a plea for companionship. The Lyrics express a desire for authentic connection and the importance of Loving someone just as they are. "Just in passing, I'm not asking. That you be anyone but you”
If you got an itch to catch some havoc there's mayhem in the plastic
City of La La I mean the land of holy zsa zsa
The wood is hot and you can spot the flocks of people like sheep,
Those with dreadlocks to jocks with Reeboks, fleeing hard rocks
A la Cafe, bambatta flashy fashion
Imagine crashing bashes with bitches
That be bad and wishing for the fame and recognition
There on a mission for self, baby
Were like the twelve, my tribe is crazy deep
We got the beats that are hot were like Clinque
Foundation resonates when I speak
And if by chance you catch it then listen, the wisdom
Epic, open hitting, choking up you've done it now and woken up
The giant scientist of hits that make you jump like a lunatic
On pogo sticks, waving your fists
So if you catching a fit
I really don't know but you better scram hurry in a double.
It goes on and on and on hell rasing Hollywood welcome to Babylon
It goes on and on and on the party don't stop till the mysteries gone.
I've seen it all, I'll see it again
I shake allot of hands but I don't got allot of friends.
It goes on, and on and on hell rasing Hollywood
Welcome to Babylon.
Live from the city of lights sunny days and late nights
Dope, designer drugs, porn stars and bar fights
I drop. makes the bells rock I'm Mr. Shifty Shellshock
Call me the man of the hour
In the land of the lost taking the money and the power
CXT, we hold our own all eyes on us,
Crazy rise rain like brimstone kicking up dust
I grab the mike with a firm hold
In a world of shattered goals, pot holes, broke fokes and bank roll
Pole position
Daddy rolling, rolling causing havoc so, ready set
I'm more than set like Morissette to Maverick
Gotta, she's got to have it, habit sick, I leave them stuck
I'm getting high for a living not giving a fuck.
It goes on and on and on hell raising Hollywood
Welcome to Babylon
It goes on and on and on the party don't stop till the mysteries gone.
I've seen it all, I'll see it again
I shake allot of hands but I don't got allot of friends.
It goes on, and on and on hell raising Hollywood
Welcome to Babylon.
I'm screaming out the call of the wild I'm speaking in tongues
I am the child of the sun the power of one
I beat the drums of the crazy town click
It's the third eye sitting on the tip of the pyramid flipped
Now I see a little shotty
Illuminati front
Dead bodes in my trunk.
Unraveling the source
I travel in to self
Gauge my wage and you try to debate my wealth
The consequences linger and I'm fingering the perpetrators
Hey yo, my nature was bread on the cross fader
It's the seventh house
Armageddon trudger ready for death
It's the brimstone slugger
It goes on and on and on hell raising Hollywood
Welcome to Babylon
It goes on and on and on the party don't stop till the mysteries gone.
I've seen it all, I'll see it again
I shake allot of hands but I don't got alot of friends.
It goes on, and on and on hell raising Hollywood
Welcome to Babylon
City of La La I mean the land of holy zsa zsa
The wood is hot and you can spot the flocks of people like sheep,
Those with dreadlocks to jocks with Reeboks, fleeing hard rocks
A la Cafe, bambatta flashy fashion
Imagine crashing bashes with bitches
That be bad and wishing for the fame and recognition
There on a mission for self, baby
Were like the twelve, my tribe is crazy deep
We got the beats that are hot were like Clinque
Foundation resonates when I speak
And if by chance you catch it then listen, the wisdom
Epic, open hitting, choking up you've done it now and woken up
The giant scientist of hits that make you jump like a lunatic
On pogo sticks, waving your fists
So if you catching a fit
I really don't know but you better scram hurry in a double.
It goes on and on and on hell rasing Hollywood welcome to Babylon
It goes on and on and on the party don't stop till the mysteries gone.
I've seen it all, I'll see it again
I shake allot of hands but I don't got allot of friends.
It goes on, and on and on hell rasing Hollywood
Welcome to Babylon.
Live from the city of lights sunny days and late nights
Dope, designer drugs, porn stars and bar fights
I drop. makes the bells rock I'm Mr. Shifty Shellshock
Call me the man of the hour
In the land of the lost taking the money and the power
CXT, we hold our own all eyes on us,
Crazy rise rain like brimstone kicking up dust
I grab the mike with a firm hold
In a world of shattered goals, pot holes, broke fokes and bank roll
Pole position
Daddy rolling, rolling causing havoc so, ready set
I'm more than set like Morissette to Maverick
Gotta, she's got to have it, habit sick, I leave them stuck
I'm getting high for a living not giving a fuck.
It goes on and on and on hell raising Hollywood
Welcome to Babylon
It goes on and on and on the party don't stop till the mysteries gone.
I've seen it all, I'll see it again
I shake allot of hands but I don't got allot of friends.
It goes on, and on and on hell raising Hollywood
Welcome to Babylon.
I'm screaming out the call of the wild I'm speaking in tongues
I am the child of the sun the power of one
I beat the drums of the crazy town click
It's the third eye sitting on the tip of the pyramid flipped
Now I see a little shotty
Illuminati front
Dead bodes in my trunk.
Unraveling the source
I travel in to self
Gauge my wage and you try to debate my wealth
The consequences linger and I'm fingering the perpetrators
Hey yo, my nature was bread on the cross fader
It's the seventh house
Armageddon trudger ready for death
It's the brimstone slugger
It goes on and on and on hell raising Hollywood
Welcome to Babylon
It goes on and on and on the party don't stop till the mysteries gone.
I've seen it all, I'll see it again
I shake allot of hands but I don't got alot of friends.
It goes on, and on and on hell raising Hollywood
Welcome to Babylon
Lyrics submitted by HoldURBreath
Hollywood Babylon Lyrics as written by Brett Mazur Seth Binzer
Lyrics © CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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This song is about all the shit that goes on in Hollywood 'when the sun goes down'.
"Hollywood Babylon"is a term that is often used to describe the seedy California underbelly, Babylon being the biblical city where sin rules.
The stuff about the illuminati and the pryamid are probably all referances to freemasonry and Shifty's way of saying that the almighty dollar rules the world.