She Took a Lot of Pills

With her drop dead looks and her little girl charm

Everybody thought she'd go far

And at 20 years old she was rich as could be

And a world-famed Hollywood star

With the big parts coming and the sweethearts, too

Life was a hell of a ride

But her star soon fell and her body got old

So she took a lot of pills and died



She took a lot of pills and died

She took a lot of pills and died

Her star soon fell and her body got old

So she took a lot of pills and died



While the traffic crawled by in the street outside

She was sitting in her kitchenette

Listening to the scuttle of the rats in the wall

And staring at her TV set

She once might have been too proud to be found

In a hovel on the lower East Side

But nothing in the world seemed to matter much now

So she took a lot of pills and died



She took a lot of pills and died

She took a lot of pills and died

Nothing in the world seemed to matter to her

So she took a lot of pills and died



Now she hasn't been seen on the silver screen

And she never may be again

But every once in a while at the far end of the dial

You can see her how she was back then

In a soft close-up, with her hair backlit

She seemed to glow inside

But something went wrong 'cause forty years on

She took a lot of pills and died



She took a lot of pills and died

She took a lot of pills and died

Something went wrong 'cause forty years on

So she took a lot of pills and died

She took a lot of pills and died

She took a lot of pills and died