Cinema Star - Black Francis

I found a panel in the armoire

Beneath the TV was a secret door

There was a ladder down to a tunnel

And I was walking underneath my floor

I walked for miles in the darkness

Until I popped up in my local gym

The lights were bright for working out

And then I saw you, you were talking to him

But he was talking to me

While he was looking at you

And he was mouthing his words to me

I’m just a kind of cinema star

Just not the kind you think

And though my scenes deliver

Now my ship is beginning to sink

I put my love into every part

And have you ever seen

The arrows from my quiver

Piercing the golden queen?

Back in the tunnel I heard the voices

Coming down from yesterday

I drank my bottle of sugar water

And headed out through the city’s decay

Fell through a vent in a warehouse

Landed on a Van Nuys sound stage

You helped me, you in your glasses

A cold, naked California sage

And though I knew it was you

It was so hard to believe

The written words that you spoke were true

I’m just a kind of cinema star

Just not the kind you think

And though my scenes deliver

Now my ship is beginning to sink

I put my love into every part

And have you ever seen

My body start to shiver

When I fill up your TV screen?