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There was this one girl who shined especially bright
Her name was Brenda Dean Paul
Brenda hit the scene in 1926. She was 19
She came from a broken home
longed to be famous
She played many parts but the most convincing
was her role as life and soul of the party
But for Brenda, once she started, she couldn’t stop
She crashed her car and then she fell ill
Perhaps it was all the late nights
Or perhaps it was the abortion
Somebody gave her morphine
and Brenda became London’s first and most notorious junky
Scandal, drug busts, prison
Brenda became famous, but not in the way she had wanted
Did she really think she could stay young forever?
Yes, probably, in that moment we all did
We were just too tired to break away
Eventually Brenda crashed
but by then nobody could really remember or care
We were all crashing
and then the whole world did too