She Took A Lot Of Pills (And Died)

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
 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
 Yeah, but something went wrong
 'Cause forty years on
 She took a lot of pills and died