“This Only Happens in the Movies” is a love ballad written for “Who Discovered Roger Rabbit”, a planned prequel to the 1988 film “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” that was ultimately never produced.
The song was meant to be a duet between Roger’s friend and a famous Hollywood actress as they fall in love wh...
This only happens in the movies
Life's not this perfect off the screen
Stars never gleam so bright
And nights never seem so right
Except in the movies that I've seen
Fate doesn't work like in the movies
Love never enters right on cue
Strangers don't meet like this
And get swept off their feet like this
The way movies say they always do
Somehow this moon is too enchanting
Somehow this moment's too ideal
Somehow this moonlight we're enthralled to
Is all too unreal
For this only happens in the movies
So this can only be pretend
But if this is my chance
The prelude to a new romance
Let's hope that it has a happy end
A Hollywood, platinum, stardust, happy end
This Only Happens in the Movies was written by Alan Menken & Glenn Slater.
Kerry Butler released This Only Happens in the Movies on Tue May 13 2008.