The Final Scene

[Joe]
Come on in.

[Betty]
What's going on, Joe]
Why am i so scared?
What was that woman saying
She sounded so weird
I don't understand...

Please, can you tell me what's happening?
You said you loved me tonight
Shall i just go?
Say something, [Joe]

[Joe]
Have some pink champage and caviar
When you go visit with a star
The hospitality is stellar

[Betty]
So this is where you're living?

[Joe]
Yes, it's quite a place, sleeps seventeen
Eight sunken tubs, a movie screen
A bowling alley in the cellar

[Betty]
I didn't come to see a house, [Joe]

[Joe]
Sunset boulevard
Cruise the boulevard
Win yourself a hollywood palazzo
Sunset boulevard
Mythic boulevard
Valentino danced on that terrazzo

[Betty]
Who's it belong to?

[Joe]
Just look around you

[Betty]
That's [Norma] desmond.

[Joe]
Right on the money
That's [Norma] desmond
That's [Norma] desmond
That's [Norma] desmond
That's [Norma] desmond

[Betty]
Why did she call me?

[Joe]
Give you three guesses

It's the oldest story in the book
Come see the taker being took
The world is full of [Joe]s and [Norma]s
Older woman, very well-to-do
Meets younger man, the standard cue
For two mechanical performers

[Betty]
Just pack your things and let's go.

[Joe]
You mean all my things?
Have you gone mad?
Leave all these things i've never had?
Leave this luxurious existence?

You want me to face that one-room hell
That murphy bed, that rancid smell
Go back to living on subsistence?

It's no time to begin a new life
Now i've finally made a perfect landing
I'm afraid there's no room for a wife
Not unless she's uniquely understanding
You should go back to artie and marry the fool
And you'll always be welcome to swim in my pool

[Betty]
I can't look at you any more, [Joe].

[Norma]
Thank you, thank you, [Joe], thank you...thank you.

What are you doing, [Joe]?
You're not leavine me?

[Joe]
Yes, i am, [Norma].

[Norma]
You can't! Max!

[Joe]
It's been a bundle of laughs
And thanks for the use of the trinkets
A little ritzy for the copy desk back in dayton

And there's something you ought to know
I want to do you this favour
They'll never shoot that hopeless script of yours
They only wanted your car

[Norma]
That's a lie! They still want me!
What about all my fan-mail?

[Joe]
It's max who writes you letters
Your audience has vanished
They left when you weren't looking
Nothing's wrong with being fifty
Unless you're acting twenty

[Norma]
I am the greatest star of them all.

[Joe]
Goodbye, [Norma].

[Norma]
No one ever leaves a star

Reporter
And as dawn breaks over hte murder house, [Norma] desmond, famed star of yesteryear,
Is in a state of complete mental shock.