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Hollywood Squares Lyrics
game over, you win
game over, i win
the sleigh bells are a-ringing the children they are singing
the memories are fleeting, a little game of paper scissors rock
the wedding bells are ringing the shot gun is a-singing now your fingers steady, a little game of paper scissors rock
you are my lucky penny my local anesthetic
ritual bloodletting we play a game of paper scissors rock
a lion tamer yelling your first piano lesson
a 4-leaf contraceptive, we play a game of paper scissors rock
o's and x's
hollywood squares
x's and o's
bloody tic-tac-toe
not in your song
i'm not your singer
not in your poem
i'm not your stanze
i'm not a color in your rainbow
but now which team
are you rooting for?
We're hollywood squares
We're going nowhere
I'm an 'X'
you're an 'O'
And this is the end...
The End.
game over, i win
the memories are fleeting, a little game of paper scissors rock
ritual bloodletting we play a game of paper scissors rock
a 4-leaf contraceptive, we play a game of paper scissors rock
hollywood squares
x's and o's
bloody tic-tac-toe
i'm not your singer
not in your poem
i'm not your stanze
i'm not a color in your rainbow
but now which team
are you rooting for?
We're going nowhere
you're an 'O'
Song Info
Submitted by
the_day_we_lied On Aug 27, 2002
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The new stuff does not "suck" at all.
The song is called Hollywood Squares. Go out and buy a real copy of the album and you would know this.
Sweet song right here.
Come to Daddy was the worst off of Irony is a Dead Scene. And this song is all about how everything is left to chance, though I can't decipher the rest.
the name of the song is not Hollywood Squares. It is called Rock Paper Scissors.
dillingers new shit sucks, the only decent new song is there cover of come to daddy
OK, first of all, I have to say that whoever this keith guy is obviously has no taste for artful expression. Miss Machine is the best thing to come out of New Jersey's collective sphincter. Period.
Anyway, onto the meaning: anyone ever seen Wonder Showzen season one on MTV2? Episode 2 has a scene where Chauncey plays Paper-Rock-Scissors against God for the fate of the earth. That makes me think this song is about religion and the uselessness of prayer. God is the "lucky penny," "lion tamer," and "4-leaf contraceptive." Prayer is basically based on a fifty-fifty system of luck. No matter what superstition you choose, your prayers are going to be "answered" at about the same rate. Plus, prayer completely defies the so-called "divine plan." So really, prayer is "going nowhere."
If you want more information on this stuff, listen to "You Are All Diseased" by George Carlin. Funny guy.
good god! they actually opened for AFI!!?!?!?!? Jesus that's sooooo wrong.
Anyway, this song is about America's undying obsession with celebrity. From the magazine covers spewed across the checkout aisles of grocery stores to the constant gelam of them glossed on their Televison screens. But it works both ways, considering Celebrities are held at such a godly position, they crave to be brought down to human level. But when it comes down to it, we're all just Hollywood squares, dying to make it somewhere, dying to have our faces seen in the right or wrong places. But in reality, we're just going nowhere. THE END