I'm gonna let you down gonna toss you around
Gonna make you want everything
You haven't found i'm gonna hold your hand
Then ask you to stand ten feet away

Oh it's just like you said i live in my head
I'm saving up all that I have ‘til I'm dead
It's always the same and never the same way

But oh if you don't want me though
I'll only want you more
I fall in love with hard to get
You know you're just like me
A mystery with nothing more to see
A virtual reality

I'm in a love affair without a love song
I'm in the habit of having what I don't want
I'm just a hologram
You can see but don't touch me baby
Oh I bet you want me

I am taking up space I'm right out of place
I'm holding a half hearted smile to your face
It's pretty enough but watch
Out it fades away time is ticking so fast
Does anything last
Soon I will be just apart of your past
I'll leave you with this
You hold on in blissful memories

Oh if you don't want me though
I'll only want you more
I fall in love with hard to get
You know you're just like me
A mystery with nothing more to see
A virtual reality

I'm in a love affair without a love song
I'm in the habit of having what I don't want
I'm just a hologram
You can see but don't touch me baby
Oh I bet you want me now

Now that you can see
I'm not, not what you make of me

I'm in a love affair without a love song
I'm in the habit of having what I don't want
I'm just a hologram
You can see but don't touch me baby
Oh I bet you want me now


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Hologram Lyrics as written by William Henry Duffy Ian Robert Astbury

Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

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    General Comment

    A popsong about playin' hard to get.

    Bluwon October 23, 2008   Link
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    General Comment

    Intimacy issues. Massive ones. BEST SONG EVER!

    sexAFTERsixon March 27, 2009   Link
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    General Comment

    i agree about it being intimacy issues. this song to me is about wanting someone to love you, wanting someone to fall for you, but not allowing things to become intimate because well, you have intimacy issues.

    ClarisseMcLellanon July 01, 2010   Link
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    General Comment

    don't think it's intimacy issues, just about always wanting what you don't have - something a lot of us experience with mediocre lovers. You think they're boring to be around until they don't want you.

    rymaster111on November 04, 2010   Link
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    My Opinion

    Once i read her lines: "Now that you can see I’m not, not what you make of me" & "Oh i bet you want me now" my whole perception flipped. It seems that her whole song has been mimicking the words of her past lover. Maybe he gave her the label of being a hologram.

    Then she says "I fall in love with hard to get You know you’re just like me a mystery with nothing more to see" Using the past lovers own words and exposing the act of him reflecting his personal views of himself or insecurities onto her. This is why she says "you know you're just like me" because she is trying to show that all of these words are actually him, although they have nothing to do with her at all.

    josephineton December 31, 2018   Link
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    General Comment

    Badass song.

    philip1105on January 02, 2022   Link

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