The Final Scene lyrics - Sunset Boulevard

Originally posted on All The Lyrics

Joe

Come on in

Betty

What's going on, Joe?
Why am I so scared?
What was that woman saying?
She sounds 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 champagne 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 the 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 Joes and Normas
Older woman, very well-to-do
Meet 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 luxuarious 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 leaving 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 favor,
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-mails?

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 the murder house,
Norma Desmond, famed star of yesteryear,
Is in a state of completely mental shock

Norma

This was dawn, I don't know why I'm frightened
Silent music starts to play
Happy New Year, darling
If you're with me, next year will be...next year will be..
They bring in his head on a silver tray
She kisses his mouth...she kisses his mouth...
Mad about the boy!
They'll say Norma's back at last!

Max

Madame, the cameras have arrived

Norma

Max, where am I?

Max

This is the staircase of the palace
And they're waiting for your dance

Norma

Of course, now I remember;
I was so frightened I might fall...

Max

You're the greatest star of all!

Light!
Camera!
Action!

Norma

When he scorn me I knew he'd have to die
Let me kiss his severed head
Compromise or death, he fought to his last breath
He never had it in him to surrender
Just like me, he never could surrender
I can't go on with the scene; I'm too happy.
May I say a few words, Mr. De Mille?
I can't tell you how wonderful it is
To be back in the studio making the picture.
I promise you I'll never desert you again.
This is my life. It's always will be. There's nothing else.
Just us and the cameras
And all you wonderful people out there in the dark.
And now, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up

This time I'm staying, I'm staying for good
I'll be back where I was born to be
With one look, I'll be me.

Arrowhead Provincial Park。。。

Arrowhead Provincial Park位于11号公路旁，Huntsville再往北一点。11号公路我们已走过无数次，每次都是到经Huntsville去Algonquin的。这次是和老婆从广州来的朋友一起去的。因是夏天的关系，到了Arrowhead太阳已经在我们的头顶上了。从Flickr上面的照片来看，Arrowhead可拍的景点并不多，再加上老婆的朋友也许对走trail不那么热衷，我们就只挑了几条比较休闲的trail边走边拍。

摆放在一旁的canoe。

水中的荷叶。这是我第一次下水拍，高兴坏了。

湖边的野花，又是我喜欢的广角。

这就是公园里的big bend。

老婆拍的小舟，时机抓的真好。

老婆再次发挥她的专长：拍小花。

第一天傍晚吃完烧烤后就匆匆赶去湖边拍日落。这一天的日落很平淡，没有云彩。我那时候也下水了，可是前景的水草太乱了，全都废了。

被拍烂的deck。

老婆的剪影。

箭头湖的日落，老婆拍的。

夏天的日出是在5点多左右，我们设好闹钟一大早就爬起来了。走到湖边，那里的雾气可大了，像仙境一样。可是要拍照的话可就难了，一大片的雾气把光线折散得太亮了，最后只好取个局部。

被一大片雾气笼罩的湖边。

拍完日出后也才6点多，我们回到帐篷继续睡，再次醒来的时候太阳已经高高挂起了。我们吃完早餐收拾完帐篷后就往Stubb's Falls开去。据说这里是U版的D200壮烈牺牲的地方，当然要来朝拜一下。来到的时候已经是11点多了，那么大的太阳想把瀑布拍得想牛奶状一样实在是太难了。随便拍了几张后就干脆坐下来用眼睛来欣赏这短暂的夏天带给我们的一篇翠绿。

Stubb's Falls

Bruce Trail (3)。。。

Hilton Falls位于Conservation Halton，由几个park组成，Hilton Falls是其中一个。进入conservation area是要按人头收费的，我和老婆比较抠门，一般都尽量挑免费trail走。话虽如此，我们还是去了好几次，毕竟这离家比较近。

顾名思义，Hilton Falls里有个瀑布，有瀑布当然就有溪流，还有就是水坝和beaver dam。除此之外这里的trail和其他的Bruce Trails没啥区别，都是比较平淡的密林。

下面是老婆拍的。

Hockley Valley在多伦多的北边，属于Caledon Hills Bruce Trail Club的一段。Hockley Valley是一个Provincial Park，我门这次走的只是park的其中一小段和一段side trail。这里实在是太平淡了，才开始走了没多久就有往回走的念头，不过最后还是把整个loop走完。

下面的是老婆拍的。

就在这里走trail的时候，我和老婆亲眼看着不远处的一棵枯树倒下。我们那时才开始意识到走trail的时候得要时时刻刻留意周围的异响，千万不可乐极生悲。Bruce Trail一直都是由许许多多热心的volunteers来维护，这里的维护和标识比许多收费的公园还要好。我和老婆老婆决定以后要是经济情况许可的话一定要成为Bruce Trail Club的会员，当volunteer回馈大自然。