You wanna play out all your fantasies
Behind a million closed doors
You've got a starring role
Behind the picture show
Svengali hand behind the Hollywood machine

They're the ones who collect the profits
The ones who make a difference
Finance all of the movies
Tell you when to pay attention
Dinners out-cost your mortgage
Pay off all allegations
Cover it up with money till it goes away

You think this world owes you most anything
Cause you can live without a soul
You think that you're outsmarting everyonе
But you're just going where nobody еlse will go

You know I can't afford no sympathy
Cause it don't shatter no glass walls, yeah
Can't let nobody get ahead of me
Svengali hand behind the Hollywood machine

They're the kings and the puppet-masters
Shamelessly imitating
All those who came before them
Waiting for some validation
The fools who cast their judgement
Pawns of their human nature
Poison the well until you make everyone sick

Hollywood machine
Well, you sound like a no-name
But it doesn't matter
You talk up a big game
And you'd sell like box office poison
You know what you're doing
Not what you're losing
Gotta keep moving the Hollywood machine forward

Dinners out-cost your mortgage
Pay off all allegations
Cover it up with money
Cover it up with money

Cover it up with money
Cover it up with money
Svengali hand behind the Hollywood machine