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Forever Beautiful - from "War Paint", Patti LuPone as Helena Rubinstein https://youtu.be/G_DYovKpgig [Intro] (Helena Rubinstein speaking)

^CThese ^Gportraits ... they trap me in ^Camber. They will not age. They will live forever.

[Verse 1]

My Dali ^Cdear, That mad surrealist, He made me bea^Futiful ^DForever Beautiful ^DbMy eyes like ^Egems, ^CNotice, please, each ^Dtiny lash ^AbWould you believe he ^Cpainted with his own mustache?

[Verse 2]

^CRaoul Dufy, A brilliant ^Ebmcolorist He made me^B beauti^Dful

Forever Beautiful

^DbA few deft st^Crokes Poppy red and iris blue ^AbIn my small way I do know something of this ^Gtoo ^C

[Verse 3]

^CMade women glorious, Made women glamorous Used all my art to halt the march of time ^F I ^Dslowed it down a ^Gbbit, There is no ^Fstopping it, But ^Gbin a painting it is always your ^Fprime ^BRight? ^F

[Verse 4]

Tamara de ^CLempicka She was bisexual You see her ^Ebmlove for me, ^DBut it's sub-textual ^DbMy lifelong ^Cfight Is to keep my figure trim ^AbBut now I eat 'cause Giacometti keeps me ^Cslim

[Bridge] (First man speaking)

^CSeven guest rooms. When was the last time she even had a visitor? (Second man speaking) She's old, and scared.

(First man speaking)

^BWouldn't you be? [Verse 4] ^AbGood, go then, you money men I ^Ebmread your beady ^Bbmeyes: ^Ebm'Vain old lady all ^Ab alone In ^Dbbed until she ^Cdies ^Bbm

[Verse 5]

^BbmI admit, I am a little bit afraid to me^C-et dea^Abth, But with my br^Dilliant eye for ^Bbmart, When ^GI dep^Dart, I'll ch^Beat death

[Verse 6]

^DbWith my Picasso His early cubist years I posed no ^Gbclothes with him, Thank God, who ^Ebmknows with him? ^BbmHe says 'Your ears are like el^Dbephant in siz^Ebme I say from ^Gyou, well, who ^Dbcan tell from ears or ^Abeyes? ^Db

[Verse 7]

^DbWhen I was girl of eight, My papa ^Gsneered at me A pl^Abainer face he'd ^Dbnever seen bef^Core I said to ^Ghell with fate, I'll mold my d^Dbestiny, ^AbPacked my satchel and walked right out the ^Dbdoor

[Verse 8]

From dis^Dbcontented life ^AbWithout a ^Dbcent I was Became a name the world could not ^Cignore

[Verse 9]

I rein^Cvent my life As every ^Bartist does I had ^Bbmnothing, I knew nothing I only ^Gknow there must be some^Gbthing more ^AbSo mu^Ech more

[Verse 10]

^DbLook at them all Their light will ^Enever dim ^DbIf death should come for ^Gbme, ^FThey bar the door on him Though flesh may ^Dbfade, ^BbmCanvas lives immortal^Dbly, And there I'll hang from now through all etern^City

[Verse 11]

Who gives a ^Ddamn? No children visit me These are my ^Abpro-ge-^Gny Each an exquisite me

[Verse 12]

^BWho says I'm old? ^DI look at my ^Glife so far ^EAnd I am beautiful, And I feel beautiful ^CForever ^Dbeautiful ^BWhen you feel beautiful, ^Ab ^C ^DYou are

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