What Were You Hoping For

Van Hunt What Were You Hoping For Lyrics
1.North Hollywood

North Hollywood, North Hollywood

That's my neighborhood

Hollywood, Holly North Hollywood

Girl, you got me hooked

I know you wish you could

Live in my neighborhood

Home of low and high-life crooks

So misunderstood


Not in death valley

But in the valley of death

There sits an oasis of concentrated goodness

Where i disappear and the next sound you hear

Is a melody over a vicious beat


North Hollywood, North Hollywood

That's my neighborhood

She was taken in a Mexican raid

Girl, you got me hooked

I know you wish you could

Live in my neighborhood

First stop on the subway train

So misunderstood


There are no more secrets

After you've been evicted

Your story sits on abandoned couches

Politics of the kids in the low-level bounce houses

Mark the world as just a skate park


North Hollywood, North Hollywood

That's my neighborhood

For the glamour of her sister's fame

Her name was changed

I know you wish you could

Live in my neighborhood

Holly is just as she always was

A complicated love child


She shook the American dreamer

And she stole my heart


Emerging starlets

Dressed virgin-esque

Know the fastest way to a man's pocket

Is on his rocket

Hot red schemes

To steal the scene in the dreams

Of the men who make the movies


North Hollywood, North Hollywood

That's my neighborhood

She may not win your heart with just one look

But girl, you got me hooked

I know you wish you could

Live in my neighborhood

The crown jewel of saboteurs

Holly remains pure


2.Watching You Go Crazy Is Driving Me Insane

I'm singing in my sleep again. It makes you laugh So hard you
cannot stop after the moment's passed My orchestra helps you
flee from the pressure 'Cause the money's dried up and it's the
first of the month

Watching you go crazy is driving me insane I hope you don't
think I'm lazy Baby, I'm working overtime Watching you go crazy
is making me lose my mind

I went to my priest to ask the church for relief He said they
had bigger problems to address than me I pressed my luck asked
for a cup of Jesus' blood 'Cause it tastes just like grape juice
He said, Go home, funny man. Enjoy while you can, 'cause we're
coming to save you.

Baby, let my music drive you mad
Let it be your punching bag
On delicate feet let's move out to the margins Let's corral a
garden full of life for our cells

My sweet lil' thang made of candy cane
I hope you can hear this
If not, you're more prepared for his return than those so-called
believers For now you should rest One day we'll make baby
foxes
Those of us short on loot are short on friends and lovers, too

We have no dollar bills to pay our water bill But we're still
sexy; and who are they?
They are much less attractive when the money is subtracted Hey


3.Designer Jeans

We need more room to breathe

Inside of our designer jeans

Would love to go rushing the banks

With an oxygen tank


But there's no movement on our own

Without a movement to push us along

Black presidents and immigrants

And green movements and hybrid engines


Oh, baby I know we feel more comfortable

In our status symbols

And the places we hold on the totem pole

Our political views, our tattoos and our hair-doos


Don't need no strategy

To get us out in our designer jeans

Message me on the bathroom wall

Original network social


People with nothing on their minds

Need only press a button to share online

Religion, atheism

Mass production and consumption of opinions


Baby, I know we feel more comfortable

In our status symbols

And the places we hold on the totem pole

Our political views, our tattoos and our heirlooms


Why can't we be who we are

Without selling it on a billboard

Sexuality, racial ID we wear them like designer jeans


And when we lose the middle class

And we all move up from the back

Black is the new the new white trash

The proof is written on our ass, baby


4.Plum

It talks to me when you're not looking
It says, hello. And I say
Hi, cutie.

You turn to leave
You're feelin' moody
But, she shakes when she waves bye to me

I beg you to come back by tuesday
You say, okif you buy me a ruby.

As you stare at your new jewelry
I stand behind you and I say, Hi, booty.

Lord, why'd you give that girl a Gorilla bump
And make it the shape of a plum
Don't tell me how to hold my nuclear bomb
'Til you've resisted the urge to love one

Plum Tree Vocal:
What have you done to her
She was once a lady
Now she's unmanageable
I took her for a walk down gettysburg
Once engineered for love, now she's a rebel

Return to Chorus:
Lord, why'd you give that girl an aquarium
Now she's easy to see hard to touch
I can only look through my camera
Like a tourist, I'm star struck

I reach for you every day
Walk with you as you sway to the shower
I'm addicted to you
you're too pretty to abuse your pretty powers

'Woods & Lollipops'
The fortunate woodsman steadied his scope
Just as she emerged from the hot shower

He thought of a wet lollipop

The sun had to squeeze around her her silhouette was cropped

Her body whether in clothes or naked looks like a sculpture
ready for war

Does this point to some instability? That he wants to give
character to every part of her?


5.Falls (Violet)

Another legend falls
No, it won't hurt forever
One day you'll make them sad with your own changes

Give 'em what they want and all they want is more
No matter what you say it all falls short
You asked me to be here so i'm herebut i had to get high
Just to stand by your side

Another young boy calls
A legend in the making
You put all your thoughts on the ones you can't believe in

Give 'em what they want and all they want is more
I guess it's TOO hard to taste when i'm SOOO close and i'm so
warm
You asked me to come over and bring you back to life
While i'm dying on the inside

So i'll say what you wanna hear
But for me there are no promises here

I'm standing under the falls
Washing all but the secrets i can live with
I won't wash them off nor the kisses i dream you do give

Give 'em what they want and all they want is more
Read between the lines and you'll miss the point
You asked me to be here so i swallowed my pride
Now i'm Violet on the inside


6.Moving Targets

Fractured but not broken

Still moving well out in the open

I lower my gun and keep my questions to a minimum

While you run and run around them


Moving Targets

Are so hard to hit

But tonight I've got you in my sights

And I can't miss

Moving Targets

Quick as a shooting star is

But the minute you slow down that's when I'll let off a round

And I can't miss


Wounded but not through yet

Still determined not to lose it

Such a sorry thing to prove

And it won't save you from the truth


Moving Targets

Are so hard to hit

But tonight I've got you in my sights

And I can't miss

Moving Targets

Quick as a shooting star is

But the minute you slow down that's when my love let off a
round

And I can't miss


You are bound to give me all you have to give


7.Eyes Like Pearls

With loaded eyes she grabbed my arm

Her body was warm as we walked in through the church doors

With loaded eyes she looked in mine

Told me I was the guy. It was what a man does dream for


With eyes like pearls

She's crying precious tears on my shoulder


After I promised her my best

She turned to our guests and blinded them with her high beams


With eyes like pearls

She's crying precious tears as I hold her


As I thanked the preacher I heard

My new brides wheels brush the curb. She slid over and let me
drive

Two miles from the church she shook like California dirt

As I slid my hand along her thighs


With eyes like pearls

She's crying precious tears on my shoulder

With eyes like pearls

She's crying precious tears as I hold her


As she looks into the sea with a distant longing

Her eyes like pearls

She's crying precious tears as I hold her


8.A Time Machine Is My New Girlfriend

I found a reason for magic

Quiet nights need to have it

Now I'm fresh as a daisy

Ready for your love to take meagain and again

The future was made for me

As a favor by my new girlfriend

She came to me and brought the living

And now I'm back into the swing of things

The youth carry a sense of drifitng

Soaring, roaring like the 20?s


Time is a plaything

When a time machine is your new girlfriend


I found a reason for magic

That's where all the smiles live

Now I'm fresh as a baby

Ever since your love saved mefrom the end

I paid all my late fees. No more rented entertainment

I'm so glad you're stayin'

21st century is 10 years old

Mystery still lurks beyond the globe

We board the train rubbing elbows

With withered beings from the fall of Rome


Time is a plaything

When a time machine is your new girlfriend


Ooh, I was on a downward slope

With no one to control the speed of my roller coaster

Love was cheaper than money

Happiness came at the cost of being with you

Then an angel heard me yell

She put on her bells before she fell through the gale

And brought me to my feetshe brought me to my feet


We lie in perfect position

To witness the birth of the ocean

I'm warm and next to my woman when it hits

I'm ageless as emotion


Time is a plaything

When a time machine is your new girlfriend

It's just a world for me to stretch out in


9.What Were You Hoping For?

it's the end of white flight
can't afford to keep moving north
money tight
and you're begging door to door
end of white flight
can't afford to live around the people you like
money tight
and you're hating your life

but maybe that's the mechanism
to bring me closer to you
tell me what were you hoping for
maybe that's the algorithm
to bring me closer to you
tell me what were you hoping for

it's the end of white flight
even tycoons are licking their wounds
economic blight
got the neighborhood looking gap-toothed
end of white flight
maybe now you see something you like
listen, baby i'm your type
and you're hating your life

but maybe that's the mechanism
to bring me closer to you
tell me what were you hoping for
maybe that's the algorithm
to bring me closer to you
tell me what were you hoping for


10.Cross Dresser

People aren't as kool as the things they leave behind I'm not
broken-hearted. Sometimes I wear her scarves on my head
Impressions improve with the passing of time I don't really miss
her. Sometimes I wear her mink furs

Cross Dresser
I was just a fool in love
And sparked a counter culture
Donned the make-up after the break up

Cross Dresser
Wanted to disguise the hurt
Wound up blending gender
But I got to know her better
Through her high heels and her skirts

I can't re-invent those magic moments
But I can make believe
Like the babies who dress up as ghosts on Halloween Drag
Queen, they ask me, is it for shock or comedy?
Or, are you expressing your sexual preference?

Cross Dresser

I was just a fool in love

And sparked a counter culture

Now I'm covered in wigs and motives

Cross Dresser
Maybe I can be a woman saint
She'll kneel to me and pray
I'll reveal to her that her true healer is a Cross Dresser

Notre separation me rend triste, mais je suis heureux de t'avoir
connu et d'avoir pu apprecier ton elegance

Notre amour n'eut-il d'autre fin que de me sauvegarder de
l'horrible mode actuelle


11.It's A Mysterious Hustle

It's A Mysterious Hustle

The world's no place to raise a child
You've been dropped into the wild
You're here now and the clock is winding down. Let me show you
how to work your way Through the crowd

It's a mysterious hustle
You got to figure out this hustle
To overcome the place where you come from

It's a mysterious hustle
Born in the middle of a puzzle
Just a step in front of fire breathing dragons

The world's a blur of twisting limbs
why the hurry with so much in front of them?
The old man, he makes no such attempts
Creeping slowly chasing the golden dim of the nights behind
him

It's a mysterious hustle
Born in the middle of a struggle
A 100 yard sprint from the beginning and from the end

It's a mysterious hustle
Sociopathic bubblebath
It's no place to raise a child

It's a race to the bottom of the pile
Where all the junkies collide and bend
In a field of equal-sized tents
Entertaining lies in small print
Where you'll find what was said
And what was really meant

(background vocal):
Stay close to me

(lead vocal):
Now, I'm faced with the very real task of saving you
But, the best thing I'll ever do is protect you
Remember: they're all lonely
Even though they're cheek to cheek
(spoken):
If you follow the beaten path it will keep you tied to the past
And you'll live and die with the anguish of never getting it
back

These are the rules and they are always changing

(Stay close to me)

As hard as this life is it could be just the playoffs
Some people put their lives in the hands of God..
Bet on yourself just in case your life is in the hands of the
odds