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Just Like Movie Stars

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"Just Like Movie Stars"
Just Like Movie Stars cover
Album track by Matt Sharp
Album Matt Sharp (album)
Released 2004
Recorded 4212 Old Hillsboro Road, Leipers Fork, TN
Length 6:07
Writer(s) Matt Sharp
Producer(s) Matt Sharp
Status Officially released
Matt Sharp (album) track listing
"Every Time in Blue"
(3)
"Just Like Movie Stars"
(4)
"Shadows"
(5)
Single
7"-vinyl single art
7"-vinyl single art

"Just Like Movie Stars" is the fourth track from the eponymous debut album by Matt Sharp. The song was also released as the album's only single, with "Before You Go" as a b-side.

Appearances

  • Matt Sharp (2004)
  • "Just Like Movie Stars" (CD-R and 7"-vinyl singles)

Overview

Sharp recounted on his Instagram account in 2022 that, of all the songs on his solo album, "Just Like Movie Stars" was "a tremendous struggle to complete and...nearly [impossible] to finish," requiring its own dedicated book of notes.[1]

The song was released as a single on both 7"-vinyl and CD-R.

Single track list

No. Title Length
1. "Just Like Movie Stars"   6:09
2. "Before You Go" (Extended version) 5:14

Gallery

CD-R release

Other

Personnel

Audio

Lyrics

lyrics for "Just Like Movie Stars"

She's got angels, she's got movie stars
In her dream life she's got bodyguards
Yeah, she got those bodyguards
Just like movie stars (Oh yeah, she does)
Just like movie stars

In the shadows of the street bazaar
The sound of bells ring out from ice cream cars
And my lifeguard, she gives me CPR
As we hide in the dark, just like movie stars (Yeah, we do)
We're just like movie stars

Yellow raincoats crowd the primrose bar
As the dream life ends with my lifeguard
Me and my lifeguard, we hide all our scars
As we fall apart, just like Hedy Lamarr
And the rain falls hard, just like movie stars
Well, doo-do-doo
Doo-do-doo

A dream life of movie stars

Hang on me, hang on me, hang on me
Hang on me, hang on me, hang on me

Hang on me, hang for free, just hang on me
Hang on me, hang on me, hang on me

Just like movie stars

Alternate lyrics[1]

[...]A nurse with no soul caresses me
We bloke smoke mouth-to-mouth and watch T.V.
In her VCR, we've got movie stars
Doo-do-doo

She draws a bath and makes primrose tea
And drives away down wet and windy streets
In her mini-car, she's a movie star
Down the boulevard, what a movie star
And she drives...
Doo-do-doo[...]

See also

  1. 1.0 1.1 Weezer B-sides "Matt Sharp - Just Like Movie Stars [Instagram stories, 2022-07-12]" YouTube. 12 July 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGQKogbcylU