Sunset Blvd. Musical Album Lyrics
Sunset Blvd. Musical Lyrics
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - Overture
- Tom Francis - Let Me Take You Back
- Tom Francis - Let's Do Lunch
- Grace Hodgett Young - Betty's Pitch
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - The Car Chase
- Nicole Scherzinger - Surrender
- Nicole Scherzinger - With One Look
- Nicole Scherzinger - Scene: Did you say you were a writer?
- Nicole Scherzinger - Salome
- David Thaxton - The Greatest Star Of All
- Tom Francis - Schwab's Drugstore
- Tom Francis - Girl Meets Boy
- Tom Francis - Scene: Where have you been?
- Tom Francis - I Started Work
- Tom Francis - What's On This Evening?
- Nicole Scherzinger - New Ways To Dream
- Nicole Scherzinger - Scene: Today's the day
- Tom Francis - New Year's Tango
- Nicole Scherzinger - The Perfect Year
- Tom Francis - This Time Next Year
- Nicole Scherzinger - Scene: Happy New Year, darling
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - Entracte
- Tom Francis - Sunset Boulevard
- Nicole Scherzinger - There's Been A Call / It Took Her Three Days
- Nicole Scherzinger - Arrival at Paramount
- Nicole Scherzinger - Norma In The Studio
- Nicole Scherzinger - As If We Never Said Goodbye
- Grace Hodgett Young - Paramount Conversations / Surrender (Reprise)
- Tom Francis - Girl Meets Boy (Reprise)
- Nicole Scherzinger - Scene: Who's Betty Schaefer? / I Should Have Stayed There
- Tom Francis - Scene: The Back Lot
- Grace Hodgett Young - Too Much In Love To Care
- David Thaxton - Scene: I made her a star
- David Thaxton - New Ways To Dream (Reprise)
- Nicole Scherzinger - The Phone Call
- Grace Hodgett Young - What's Going On, Joe?
- Tom Francis - No One Ever Leaves A Star
- Nicole Scherzinger - Max, Where Am I?
- Andrew Lloyd Webber - End Credits
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Tom Francis - Let Me Take You Back
[ Featuring Andrew Lloyd Webber ]
[JOE]
I guess it was 5 a.m
A homicide had been reported
From one of those crazy mansions up on Sunset
Tomorrow, every front page
Is going to lead with this story
You see an old time movie star is involved
Maybe the biggest star of all
But before you read about it
Before it gets distorted
By those Hollywood piranhas
If you wanna know the real facts
(spoken)
You've come to the right party
(sung)
Let me take you back six months
I was at the bottom of the barrel
I'd had a contract down at Fox
But I'd fallen foul of Darryl
Now I had a date at Paramount
Along with about a thousand other writers
If it didn't come up roses, I'd be covering funerals
Back in Dayton, Ohio
I'd hidden my car three blocks away
Turned out to be a smart move
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Tom Francis - Let's Do Lunch
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Grace Hodgett Young - Betty's Pitch
[ Featuring Tom Francis, Andrew Lloyd Webber ]
[BETTY]
I read one of your stories
Wasn't it Scribbner's? Some magazine
Titled something with windows
[JOE]
It was "Dark Windows", if that's what you mean
[BETTY]
That's right, I really liked it
[JOE]
I'm all warm and runny inside
[BETTY]
Let me pitch it to Sheldrake
[JOE]
I may be broke, but I still have my pride
[BETTY]
Come on, get off your high horse
Writers with pride don't live in LA
Silence, exile, and cunning
Those are the only cards you can play
[JOE]
Sheldrake won't buy the story
He likes trashy stereotypes
Jesus, think of the effort
Trying to get him to heighten his sight
[BETTY]
Every movie's a circus
Can't we discuss this? Schwab's Thursday night?
[JOE]
What for? Nothing will happen
I have to go now, fight the good fight
[BETTY]
What's the rush?
[JOE]
See those palookas?
[BETTY]
Yes, what about them?
[JOE]
Do me a terrific favor
Keep them amused while I escape
[BETTY]
If you're at Schwab's on Thursday
[JOE, spoken]
Done
Those guys were after my car
If I lose out in this town, it's like having my legs cut off
[BETTY, spoken]
Let's duck into the soundstage
[REPO MAN 1]
Come on, Gillis, give us the keys
[REPO MAN 2]
Or I'll reshape your face
[BETTY, spoken]
Please be quiet, Mr. DeMille is shooting over there
[REPO MAN 1]
So what?
[BETTY, spoken]
They're doing a red hot scene, you wanna stay and watch?
[REPO MAN 1]
No
[REPO MAN 2]
I think we have five minutes
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Andrew Lloyd Webber - The Car Chase
[INSTRUMENTAL]
[JOE]
Christ, where am I?
I had landed
In the garden of some big mansion
Like an abandoned movie set
[INSTRUMENTAL]
[NORMA]
You there
Why are you so late?
[MAX]
This way
[JOE]
Hey, uh, buddy, I just had some trouble with my car
[MAX]
And wipe your feet
[JOE]
Look, I just need to change the tire
[JOE]
Christ, where am I?
I had landed
In the garden of some big mansion
Like an abandoned movie set
[INSTRUMENTAL]
[NORMA]
You there
Why are you so late?
[MAX]
This way
[JOE]
Hey, uh, buddy, I just had some trouble with my car
[MAX]
And wipe your feet
[JOE]
Look, I just need to change the tire
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Nicole Scherzinger - Surrender
[ Featuring Andrew Lloyd Webber ]
[NORMA]
No more wars to fight
White flags fly tonight
You are out of danger now
Let them send their armies
I will never bend
I won't see you now 'til I surrender
I'll see you again when I surrender
[JOE, spoken]
I took a glance into the next room
And there, on the table, shrouded in a shawl
Was a small, sad corpse
A dead chump
[NORMA, spoken]
Now, don't you give me a fancy price just because I'm rich
[JOE, spoken]
Look, lady, you've got the wrong man
I just needed a place to stash a limping car with a hot license plate
[NORMA, spoken]
Get out
[JOE, spoken]
Okay, okay, okay
And I'm sorry you lost your friend
[NORMA, spoken]
Get out of hеre
[JOE, spoken]
Haven't I seen you somewhеre before?
[NORMA, spoken]
Or shall I call my servant?
[JOE, spoken]
Aren't you Norma Desmond?
Ha, you used to be in pictures, you used to be big
[NORMA, spoken]
I am big, it's the pictures that got small
[NORMA, sung]
Once upon a time, not long ago
The head of any studio
Knew how and when to play his aces
Now they'll put some talentless unknown
Beneath their sacred microphone
We didn't need words, we had faces
Yes, they took all the idols and smashed them
They tore down the temples where we all worshipped
They trampled on what was divine
They threw away the gold of silence
When all they needed was this face of mine
[JOE, spoken]
Don't blame me, I'm just a writer
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Nicole Scherzinger - With One Look
[ Featuring Andrew Lloyd Webber ]
With one look, I can break your heart
With one look, I play every part
I can make your sad heart sing
With one look you'll know, all you need to know
With one smile, I'm the girl next door
Or the love that you've hungered for
When I speak it's with my soul
I can play any role
No words can tell
The stories my eyes tell
Watch me when I frown
You can't write that down
You know, I'm right
It's there in black and white
When I look your way
You'll hear what I say
Yes, with one look, I put words to shame
Just one look sets the screen aflame
Silent music starts to play
One tear in my eye makes the whole world cry
With one look they'll forgive the past
They'll rejoice, I've returned at last
To my people in the dark
Still out there in the dark
Silent music starts to play
With one look you'll know, all you need to know
With one look, I'll ignite a blaze
I'll return to my glory days
They'll say
Norma's back at last
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
Writer: Don Black, Christopher Hampton, Andrew Lloyd Webber
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Nicole Scherzinger - Scene: Did you say you were a writer?
[ Featuring Tom Francis, Andrew Lloyd Webber ]
[NORMA DESMOND]
Just a minute
Did you say you were a writer?
[JOE GILLIS]
That's what it says on my Guild card
[NORMA DESMOND]
Then you've written pictures?
[JOE GILLIS]
I sure have, would you like to see my credits?
[NORMA DESMOND]
Come over here, I wanna ask you something
What sort of length is a movie script these days?
[JOE GILLIS]
Depends
[NORMA DESMOND]
I wrote this
It's a very important picture
[JOE GILLIS]
Looks like six very important pictures
[NORMA DESMOND]
It's for DeMille to direct
[JOE GILLIS]
Oh, yeah? Will you be in it?
[NORMA DESMOND]
Of course, what do you think?
[JOE GILLIS]
I was just asking
I didn't know you were planning a comeback
[NORMA DESMOND]
I hate that word
It's a return
[JOE GILLIS]
Well, fair enough
[NORMA DESMOND]
I want you to read it
[JOE GILLIS]
You shouldn't let another writer read your stuff
He may steal it
[NORMA DESMOND]
I'm not afraid
Sit down
Max, bring something to drink
[MAX VON MAYERLING]
Yes, Madam
[NORMA DESMOND]
I said sit down
It's about-
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Nicole Scherzinger - Salome
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David Thaxton - The Greatest Star Of All
[ Featuring Andrew Lloyd Webber ]
[MAX]
Once, you won't remember
If you said Hollywood
Hers was the face you'd think of
Her face on every billboard
In just a single week
She'd get ten thousand letters
Men would offer fortunes
For a bloom from her corsage
Or a few strands of her hair
Today, she's half-forgotten
But it's the pictures that got small
She is the greatest star of all
Then, you can't imagine
How fans would sacrifice themselves
To touch her shadow
There was a maharajah
Who hanged himself
With one of her discarded stockings
She's immortal
Caught inside that flickering light beam
Is a youth which cannot fade
Madame's a living legend
I've seen so many idols fall
She is the greatest star of all
[JOE, spoken]
When he'd gone, I stood looking out of the window a while
There was the ghost of a tennis court with faded markings and a sagging net
There was an empty swimming pool where so many silent movie stars of the past must have swum 10,000 midnights ago
And there was something else
The chimp's last rites, as if she were laying a child to rest
Was her life really as empty as that?
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Tom Francis - Schwab's Drugstore
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Tom Francis - Girl Meets Boy
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Tom Francis - Scene: Where have you been?
[ Featuring David Thaxton, Andrew Lloyd Webber ]
[MAX VON MAYERLING]
Where have you been?
[JOE GILLIS]
Out
I assume I can go out when I feel like it
[MAX VON MAYERLING]
Madam is quite aggitated
Earlier this evening she wanted you for something and you could not be found
[JOE GILLIS]
Well, that's tough
[MAX VON MAYERLING]
I don't think you understand, Mr. Gillis
Madam is extremely fragile
She has moments of melancholy, there have been suicide attempts
[JOE GILLIS]
Why? Because of her career?
She's done well enough, look at the fan mail she gets every single day
[MAX VON MAYERLING]
I wouldn't look too closеly at the post marks, if I were you
[JOE GILLIS]
You mеan, you send them?
[MAX VON MAYERLING]
Will you be requiring any supper this evening, sir?
[JOE GILLIS]
No
And Max
[MAX VON MAYERLING]
Yes, sir?
[JOE GILLIS]
Who the hell do you think you are bringing my stuff from my apartment without consulting me?
I have a life of my own, are you telling me I'm supposed to be a prisoner here?
[MAX VON MAYERLING]
I think, sir, perhaps you will have to make up your mind to abide by the rules of this house
That is, if you want this job
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Tom Francis - I Started Work
[ Featuring Andrew Lloyd Webber ]
[JOE]
I started work on the script
I hacked my way through the thicket
A maze of fragmented ramblings
By a soul in limbo
She hovered there like a hawk
Afraid I'd damage her baby
(spoken)
I thought we might cut away from the market
[NORMA, spoken]
Cut away from me?
[JOE, spoken]
They don't want you in every scene
[NORMA, spoken]
Of course they do, what else would they have come for?
[JOE]
I made my first big mistake
I put my foot in the quicksand
It wouldn't be a few paste and scissors
This would take weeks
The house was always so quiet
Just me and Max and that organ
No one fawned and nobody ever came
And there was only one kind of entertainment on hand
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Tom Francis - What's On This Evening?
[ Featuring David Thaxton ]
[JOE]
Max, what's on this evening?
I hope it's not one of her weepy melodramas
[MAX]
We'll keep showing one of Madam's injuring classics
"The Ordeal of Joan of Arc"
[JOE]
Oh, God
We saw that last week
[MAX]
A masterpiece can never pull
She's the greatest star of all
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Nicole Scherzinger - New Ways To Dream
[ Featuring Tom Francis, Andrew Lloyd Webber ]
[NORMA]
This was dawn
There were no rules, we were so young
Movies were born
So many songs yet to be sung
So many roads
Still unexplored
We gave the world new ways to dream
Somehow we found new ways to dream
Joan of Arc
Look at my face, isn't it strong?
There in the dark
Up on the screen, where I belong
We'll show them all
Nothing has changed
We'll give the world new ways to dream
Everyone needs nеw ways to dream
[INSTRUMENTAL]
[JOE]
I didn't argue, why hurt her?
You don't yеll at a sleepwalker
Or she could fall and break her neck
She smelled of faded roses
It made me sad to watch her
As she relived her glory
Poor Norma
So happy
Lost in her silver heaven
[NORMA]
Nothing has changed
We'll give the world new ways to dream
Everyone needs new ways to dream
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Nicole Scherzinger - Scene: Today's the day
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Tom Francis - New Year's Tango
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Nicole Scherzinger - The Perfect Year
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Tom Francis - This Time Next Year
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Nicole Scherzinger - Scene: Happy New Year, darling
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Tom Francis - Sunset Boulevard
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Nicole Scherzinger - There's Been A Call / It Took Her Three Days
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Nicole Scherzinger - Arrival at Paramount
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Nicole Scherzinger - Norma In The Studio
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Nicole Scherzinger - As If We Never Said Goodbye
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Grace Hodgett Young - Paramount Conversations / Surrender (Reprise)
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Tom Francis - Girl Meets Boy (Reprise)
[ Featuring Grace Hodgett Young, Andrew Lloyd Webber ]
[JOE]
Trouble is, they will never buy it
Unhappy endings won't pay to keep up your pool
[BETTY]
You sound like you really hate yourself
When did you become so cynical?
Why are you so frightened of reality?
Grow up, Joe, please respect your talent
That's why I asked you to come and share it with me
[JOE, spoken]
Alright, we've come this far, we might as well bite the bullet
So how's Artie?
[BETTY, spoken]
Stuck in Tennessee
It rains all the time, they're weeks behind
Nobody knows whеn they'll get back
[JOE, spoken]
Good
[BETTY, spoken]
What's good about it?
I'm missing him something fiеrce
[JOE, spoken]
No, I mean it's good we decided to go for broke
(sung)
Back to work
[BETTY]
So we let the kid die?
[JOE]
Sounds kind of brutal, they'll hate it in Idaho
[BETTY]
Don't agree, we're writing for grown ups
[JOE]
Endangered species, wiped out a long time ago
[BETTY]
Audiences are much smarter, smarter than we give them credit for
Let's agree we're going to do to do the best we can
[JOE]
Yes, you're right, no more second guessing
[BETTY]
Working with someone can turn you into a fan
[JOE]
This is fun, writing with a partner
[BETTY]
Yes, and it could be
[JOE]
A helluva movie
[BETTY]
Can we really do this?
[BOTH]
I know that we can
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Nicole Scherzinger - Scene: Who's Betty Schaefer? / I Should Have Stayed There
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Tom Francis - Scene: The Back Lot
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Grace Hodgett Young - Too Much In Love To Care
[ Featuring Tom Francis, Andrew Lloyd Webber ]
[BETTY]
When I was a kid
I played on this street
I always loved illusion
I thought make-believe
Was truer than life
But now, it's all confusion
Please, can you tell me what's happening?
I just don't know anymore
If this is real, how should I feel?
Not been here before
[JOE]
If you were smart
You would keep on walking
Out of my life, as fast as you can
I'm not the one
You should pin your hopes on
You're falling for the wrong kind of man
This is crazy
You know we should call it a day
Sound advice, great advice
Let's throw it away
Betty's Pitch
Grace Hodgett Young, Tom Francis & Andrew Lloyd Webber
I can't control
All the things I'm feeling
I haven't got a prayer
If I'm a fool
Well I'm too much in love to care
[BETTY]
I thought I had
Everything I needed
My life was sеt
My dreams were in placе
My heart could see
Way into the future
All of that goes
When I see your face
I should hate you
There I was, the world in my hand
Can one kiss kiss away
Everything I planned?
I can't control
All the things I'm feeling
I'm floating in mid-air
I know it's wrong
But I'm too much in love to care
[BOTH]
This is crazy
You know we should call it a day
[JOE]
Sound advice
[BETTY]
Great advice
[BOTH]
Let's throw it away
[BETTY]
I can't control
All the things I'm feeling
[JOE]
We're floating in mid-air
[BOTH]
If we are fools, well, we're too much in love to care
If we are fools, well, we're too much in love to care
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David Thaxton - Scene: I made her a star
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David Thaxton - New Ways To Dream (Reprise)
[ Featuring Andrew Lloyd Webber ]
[MAX]
When we met
She was a child, barely sixteen
Awkward and yet
She had an air I'd never seen
I knew I'd found
My perfect face deep in her eyes
New ways to dream
And we inspired new ways to dream
Talkies came
I stayed with her, took up this life
Threw away fame
Please understand, she was my wife
We had achieved far more than most
We gave the world new ways to dream
Everyone needs new ways to dream
[JOE, spoken]
You're telling me, you were married to her?
[MAX, spoken]
I was the first husband
[MAX]
So I play this game, keeper of the flame
Sharing with her one last dream
Don't you think I knew it never could come true?
She'll be the very last one to surrender
I will not allow her to surrender
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Nicole Scherzinger - The Phone Call
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Grace Hodgett Young - What's Going On, Joe?
[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 champagne and cavier
When you go visit with a star
The hospitality is stellar
[BETTY]
So this is where you're living?
[JOE]
Yes, it's quite the place, sleep 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 some Hollywood palazzo
Sunset Boulevard, mythic boulevard
Valentino danced on that terazzo
[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, spoken]
Just pack your things and let's go!
[JOE]
You mean all my things? Have you gone mad?
Leave all these things I never had?
Leave this luxorious existence?
You want me to face that one roon hell
That murphy bed, that rancid smell
Go back to living on subsitence
It's no time to begin a new life
Now I finally made the 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, spoken]
I can't look at you anymore, Joe
[NORMA, spoken]
Thank you. Thank you, Joe. Thank you
What are you doing, Joe?
You're not.. leaving me?
[Joe, spoken]
Yes. Yes I am, Norma
[NORMA, spoken]
You can't
Max! Max?
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Tom Francis - No One Ever Leaves A Star
[ Featuring Nicole Scherzinger, Andrew Lloyd Webber ]
[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 fourty unless you're acting twenty!
[NORMA, spoken]
I am the greatest star of them all
[JOE, spoken]
Goodbye, Norma
[NORMA]
No one ever leaves a star
[A gunshot. Joe and Norma pant heavily.]
[Another one. Joe screams in agony.]
[A third and last shot. Joe has died. Norma is breathing heavily.]
[NORMA]
This was dawn
I don't know why I'm frightened
Silent music starts to play
(spoken)
Happy New Year, darling
(sung)
If you're with me
Next year will be...
Next year will be...
They're bringing his head on a silver tray
She kisses his mouth
She kisses his mouth
(spoken)
Maaaad about the boy...
(sung)
They'll see Norma's back at last
[MAX, spoken]
Madame, the cameras have arrived
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Nicole Scherzinger - Max, Where Am I?
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Andrew Lloyd Webber - End Credits
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