Tom: A
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[Verse 1]
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With her drop-dead looks and her little-girl charm
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Everybody thought she'd go far
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And at 20 years old she was rich as could be
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And a world-famed Hollywood star.
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With the big parts coming and the sweethearts, too
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Life was a hell of a ride
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But her star soon fell and her body got old
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So she took a lot of pills and died.
[Chorus]
A D A
She took a lot of pills and died
A D A
She took a lot of pills and died
A D
her star soon fell and her body got old
A E A
So she took a lot of pills and died.
[Verse 2]
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While the traffic crawled by in the street outside
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She was sitting in her kitchenette
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Listening to the scuttle of the rats in the wall
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And staring at her TV set.
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She once might have been too proud to be found
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in a hovel on the lower East Side
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But nothing in the world seemed to matter much now
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So she took a lot of pills and died.
[Chorus]
A D A
She took a lot of pills and died
A D A
She took a lot of pills and died
A D
her star soon fell and her body got old
A E A
So she took a lot of pills and died.
[Verse 3]
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Now she hasn't been seen on the silver screen
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And she never may be again
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But every once in a while at the far end of the dial
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You can see her how she was back then.
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In a soft close-up, with her hair backlit,
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She seemed to glow inside
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Yeah, but something went wrong, 'cause forty years on
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She took a lot of pills and died.
[Chorus]
A D A
She took a lot of pills and died
A D A
She took a lot of pills and died
A D
her star soon fell and her body got old
A E A
So she took a lot of pills and died.
