Released: December 15, 2014

Songwriter: Dan Lancaster Mike Duce Calum Hood Luke Hemmings Michael Clifford Ashton Irwin

Producer: 5 Seconds of Summer John Feldmann

[Intro: Calum]
This next song’s called Heartache on the Big Screen
That’s all I have to say

[Verse 1: Luke]
Started out like in the movies
But it ended like a bad dream
Curtain opened, heard the crowd roar
This one’s a repeat, seen it before

[Pre-Chorus: Calum & Luke]
Rewind to the start before it all went wrong
What’s going on?
Fast forward to the end, after everyone’s gone home
And they’ve forgotten it all

[Chorus: All & Luke]
This ain’t a movie that I wanna see
A tragic story, starring you and me
Yell “Cut,” we’re stuck inside this scene
This is heartache on the big screen
The clock is ticking, and I’m out of time
The camera’s rolling, and I forgot my lines
My script is ripped and now I see
This is heartache on the big screen

[Verse 2: Calum]
Curtain closes on this cliché
Like a story of a bad day
Back to square one where I started
As I stand here broken-hearted

[Pre-Chorus: Calum]
Fast forward to the end, after everyone’s gone home
And they’ve forgotten it all

[Chorus: All & Luke]
This ain’t a movie that I wanna see
A tragic story, starring you and me
Yell “Cut,” we’re stuck inside this scene
This is heartache on the big screen
The clock is ticking, and I’m out of time
The camera’s rolling, and I forgot my lines
My script is ripped and now I see
This is heartache on the big screen

[Bridge: Michael & Luke]
If Hollywood could see me now, I’d get this starring roll
But they won’t so I’ll just keep on acting a fool
This ain’t a movie that I wanna see, a tragic story, starring you and me
Yell “Cut,” we’re stuck inside this scene

[Chorus: All & Luke]
The clock is ticking, and I’m out of time
The camera’s rolling, and I forgot my lines
My script is ripped and now I see
This is heartache on the big screen
This is heartache on the big screen

5 Seconds of Summer

5 Seconds of Summer is an Australian pop-punk band composed of Luke Hemmings, Calum Hood, Ashton Irwin, and Michael Clifford. They formed in 2011 and rose to international fame when One Direction found their covers of songs on YouTube in 2013. Shortly afterwards, they released their award winning single “She Looks So Perfect.”

Their first EP, Somewhere New, was released December 7th, 2012, and featured “Unpredictable,” “Out of My Limit,” “Beside You,” and “Gotta Get Out”.

The band’s self-titled debut studio album was released June 27th, 2014. “She Looks So Perfect,” “Don’t Stop,” “Amnesia,” and “Good Girls” were released as singles, each earning a music video. “Beside You” was remastered and put on the album.