This song gets in your head!

She sang Jazz in the 50’s,
wrote songs in the 60’s
and acted in 75.
When she crashed in Paris
and died for a minute
she was full of herself
and full of the future.

And she was beautiful.
She was radiant but broken.
For she knew her soul had gone ahead
to hold the right door open.

Oh, she kept on singin’
and dancin’ and ringin’
the same bells that she rang before
but she wasn’t looking for beauty now
she was lookin’ for the door.
And we all looked for it in darkness together
and we looked for it in light
and we looked for it in worlds that
only existed at night.

Then one day she went to pieces
with the whole world lookin’ on
and now she’s just another loser
on beautifulloser.com

So the world kept turnin’
and we got into learnin’
how to be all grown up and tough
and we all turned into doctors
and lawyers and stuff.
But it was good to know she was out there
being free for everyone
while someone bad was dreaming up
beautifulloser.com

She was beautiful.
She was radiant but broken.
For she knew her soul had gone ahead
to hold the right door open.

Now she’s back in the business
with a smaller apartment
and a whole new set of dreams
and a small time agent who’s
guaranteeing to get her face
on a million screens.
So she went to a few auditions
but she couldn’t get a part.
They were always after a younger woman
someone full of herself
and full of the future.

But this weird little kid he kept coming around
and banging on her door sayin’
“Lady I work for this web site
I know you’d be perfect for.
But they won’t care about your redemption
and they don’t allow wounds to heal.
The customers like you broken.
It’s a take it or leave it deal.”

Now she lies in the shadows
and dies for the camera
and she’ll do what you want her to do
whilst tryin’ to hang onto
the memory of a young girl
so full of herself
and full of the future.

And she was beautiful.
She was radiant but broken
‘cause she knew her soul was up ahead
holding the right door open.

So she filled her room with flowers
and she wrote to everyone
but she never said a single word
about beautifulloser.com.
She said she was living in India
where the air was clear and still
and every soul’s got a private door
that you can pass through at will.

Then she took down all her mirrors
and broke ‘em one by one
while I was busy getting rich
off beautifulloser.com

And her heart was achin’
her hands were shakin’
and she knew her soul was out there waitin’.
So with the whole world lookin’ on
she put a shotgun in her mouth
on beautifulloser.com

And she was beautiful.
She was beautiful.
She was beautiful.
Oh so beautiful.
She was beautiful.
She was beautiful.
She was beautiful.

© Godley / Gouldman

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