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{{Infobox Lostwave
|Box=BoxGreen
|ShowBox=yes
|Name=The Downfall of a Well Known Actress
|Image=DownfallOfAWellKnownActress.jpg
|Caption=The cover of Fair Verona's 2001 album Unfair & Unofficial
|Alt_name=
|Artist=Fair Verona
|Genre=Pop Punk
|Year=1999
|Status=Solved; Full version available
|OP=andyhermann
|Search_started=2019
|Search_ended=2024
|Media=DownfallOfAWellKnownActress.mp3
}}
'''The Downfall of a Well-Known Actress''' (formerly known as '''"Downfall"''') is a solved lostwave by American indie-rock band Fair Verona, which was released exclusively on their website as a bonus track for their 2001 album Unfair & Unofficial. It was first uploaded to WatZatSong by user andyhermann in 2019

== Background ==
On October 22, 2019, the song was first posted by WatZatSong user andyhermann, who claimed to have downloaded it in 2008 with the original filename being Downfall.mp3.<ref>https://www.watzatsong.com/en/found/Fair+Verona-The+Downfall+of+a+Well+Known+Actress-626980.html</ref> 

The song first gained attention in December 2022, when WatZatSong user RojoCatto/Mike Worst contacted the OP and received the full song, which he then uploaded to his channel on December 17, 2022.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmbwLQ1mfNw</ref> 

On December 22, 2023, Mike Worst discovered a band called Downfall that had a song called "Save Me Now" with a similar runtime to the lost song on MySpace, but the file was no longer available.<ref>https://myspace.com/downfall654/music/song/-save-me-now-83397637-92006061</ref> This lead was debunked on January 21, 2024, when a member of the band was contacted on Twitter and confirmed that he did not create the song.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/DownfallOfLostWave/comments/19cclcn/the_twitter_1downfall_myspace_page_are_debunked/</ref>

== Discovery ==
On February 29, 2024, the song was identified as The Downfall of a Well-Known Actress by Fair Verona, after Discord user Erin used an API to scrape every song on the website last.fm for the keyword "downfall", and user Sveta/cherryblossomcherish discovered the song on an archived version of the band's website.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/DownfallOfLostWave/comments/1b3fyte/comment/kss7h1x/</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20010706223542/http://www.fairverona.com/music/downfall.mp3</ref>

== Lyrics ==
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible" role="presentation"
|'''Official Lyrics'''
|-
|'''(Verse 1)'''
June arrived with a bitterness so cold

I looked around expecting December

In the distance, the sound of the highway

The last thing I can remember

So you think you wanna go, well let me go?

Then you think you wanna stay, well I know

I’ll step outside, once again I'll be leaving

Be leaving

Believe me

'''(Chorus)'''

There is a song somewhere inside of me

Damn them all, one-hundred fifty-three

I can't protect them from myself

And who is gonna save me?

'''(Verse 2)'''

You took away all the comfortable silence

And left behind a beautiful future

The faces never ceased to amaze me

The amazement doesn't even begin to phase me

So my life is just beginning to hit me

I'm already six feet under

Your timing just kills me

It just killed me (It killed me)

'''(Chorus)'''

There is a song somewhere inside of me

Damn them all, one-hundred fifty-three

I can't protect them from myself

But who is gonna save me?

Who is gonna save me now?

'''(Outro)'''

This is a beautiful movie

We play in

And I'm gonna change it when I

Get in

This is a beautiful movie

We play in

And I'm gonna change it when I

Get in
|}

== Personnel ==
[https://www.discogs.com/artist/1412912-Shawna-Potter Shawna Potter] – lead vocals, rhythm guitar

[https://www.discogs.com/artist/283752-Beth-Cameron Beth Cameron] – lead guitar, backing vocals

[https://www.discogs.com/artist/2050404-Leah-Nicholls Leah Nicholls] – bass, backing vocals

[https://www.discogs.com/artist/2050406-Brent-Summers Brent Summers] – drums

== Resources ==

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5jw9ClYf6A Fair Verona Podcast Appearance] 
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[[Category:The Golden Age Of Lostwave]]