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