Sunset Boulevard : 1994 Cast Recording soundtrack – Who's Betty Schaeffer lyrics

Norma
Is this what you're looking for, by any chance?
Joe
Why, yes.
Norma
Whose phone number is this?
I've been worried about the line of my throat.
I think this woman has done wonders with it.
Joe
Good
Norma
And I have lost half a pound since Tuesday
Joe
Very good
Norma
Now it's after nine, I'd better get to bed
Joe
You had
Norma
Are you coming up?
Joe
I think I'll read a while longer
Norma
You went out last night, didn't you, Joe?
Joe
I went for a walk
Norma
You took the car
Joe
I drove to the beach
Norma
Who's Betty Schaeffer?
Joe
Surely,
you don't want me to feel as if I'm a prisoner in this house?
Norma
You don't understand Joe, I'm under a terrible strain.
It's been so hard I even got myself a revolver.
The only thing that stopped me from killing myself
Was the thought of all those people
Waiting to see me back on the screen.
How could I disappoint them?
All I ask is a little patience, a little understanding.
Joe
Norma, there's nothing to worry about,
I haven't done anything
Norma
Of course you haven't,
Good night, my darling
Joe
I should have stayed there, poor Norma,
So desperate to be ready for what would never happen
But Betty would be waiting,
We had a script to finish one unexpected love scene
Two people, both risking a kind of happy ending.