Lord, I love Cyndi Lauper, and I love this cause, but homegirl looks like what you’d get if Lisa Marie Presley had a baby with Lindsay Lohan’s coke mirror.

This is seriously tragic.

Cyndi showed up to Defying Inequality: The Broadway Concert in New York looking about 18 sheets to the wind. This woman can barely keep her eyes open. Her publicist never should have let her walk the carpet. Very very sad.

If you’d like to learn more about the concert, or donate to this very important equal rights cause, click here.

Oh, aging is such a sad process.

The saggy boobs. The flabby vagina. The menopause. The weight gain. The lowering of your annoyingly squeaky voice.

Fortunately, Cyndi Lauper’s found a cure for the last item.

Pop survivor Cyndi Lauper has one of the most unusual pre-performance warmups.

An amused source backstage at last week’s benefit for the Hetrick-Martin Institute said she sucked the gas out of two helium balloons, to create her trademark squeaky voice, before belting out hits like “Time After Time.”

Something tells me it’s not just before shows that this woman’s sucking on helium …