Musicals - Sunset Boulevard - The Greatest Star Of All Lyrics
MAXOnce, you won't rememberIf you said Hollywood, hers was the face you'd think ofHer face on every billboardIn just a single week, she's get ten thousand lettersMen would offerFortunes for a bloom from her corsageOr a few strands of her hairToday, she's half-forgottenBut it's the pictures that got smallShe is the greatest star of allThen, you can't imagineHow fans would sacrifice themselves to touch her shadowThere was a maharajahWho hanged himself with one of her discarded stockingsShe's immortalCaught inside that flickering light beamIs a youth which cannot fadeMadame's a living legend;I've seen so many idols fallShe is the greatest star of allJOE (V.O.)When he'd gone, I stook looking out the window for a while.There was the ghost of a tennis court with faded markings and a sagging net.There was an empty pool where Clara Bows and Fatty Arbuckle must have swum 10,000 midnights ago.And then there was something else: the chimp's last rites, as if she were layingA child to rest. Was her life really as empty as that?