There are songs that sound like movies

There are themes that fill the screen

There are lines I say that sound as if they're written

There are looks I wear the theater should have seen

But though I've made my life a movie

The matinee must end by five

And I must stagger out into the blinding sunlight half alive

Wishing I were back inside the picture show

There where it's always night

Notice how the screen is wide

The second row I'd sit around you tight

Will I stay? Yes, I might

Widescreen wide around my eyes

Blind my mind with lies

Find a world like nothing that I've seen

Oh widescreen dreams are just my size

As we walk from out the movie

Do I look like Steve McQueen?

Does the orchestra play chords

When we start loving?

Do we move just like slow motion

On the screen?

Life's a constant disappointment

When you live on celluloid

But my movie expectations are a dream I can't avoid

Waiting for a girl to say the things

That I heard in a film last night

But she doesn't want to play the role

And she can't pick her cues up right

Will I dream? Yes, I might

Oh widescreen wide around my eyes

Blind my mind with lies

Find a world like nothing that I've seen

Oh widescreen take the world away

Break me from the day

Make me be what's not for real

And make me feel like a star

Make me what you are