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façade (original broadway cast recording) - frank wildhorn lyrics

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[male soloist #1]
there’s a face that we wear
in the cold light of day

[male soloist #2]
it’s society’s mask
it’s society’s way

[both]
an the truth is
that it’s all a façade

[male soloist #1]
there’s a face that we wear
’till the nighttime appears

[male soloist #2]
and what’s hiding inside
behind all of our fears

[both]
is our true self
locked inside the façade

[ensemble]
every day
people, in their own sweet way
like to add a coat of paint
and be what they ain’t

[male soloist #1]
that’s how our little-

[ensemble]
game is played
livin’ like a masquerade
acting a bizarre charade

[male soloist #2]
while playing the saint!

but there’s one thing i know
and i know it for sure
this disease that we’ve got
has got no ready cure
and i’m certain
life is terribly hard

[ensemble]
when your life’s a façade!

[women]
look around you
i have found
you cannot tell by lookin’ at the surface
what is lurkin’ there beneath it

[female soloist #1]
see that face
now over there
now, i’m prepared to bet you
what you see’s not what you get-
’cause man’s a master of deceit

[ensemble]
so, what is the sinister secret?
the lie he will tell you is true?

[male soloist #2]
it’s that each man you meet
on the street
isn’t one man but two!

[ensemble]
nearly everyone you see
like him an’ her
an’ you and me
pretends to be a pillar of society

[women]
a model of propriety

[men]
sobriety
and piety

[women]
who shudders at the thought
of notoriety!

[ensemble]
the ladies and gents here before you
which none of them ever admits

[men]
they might have saintly looks

[ensemble]
but they’re sinners and crooks

[ensemble #1]
hypocrite!

[ensemble #2]
hypocrite!

[ensemble]
there are preachers who k!ll
there are k!llers who preach
there are teachers who lie
there are liars who teach
take your pick, dear
’cause it’s all a façade

[male soloist #3]
if we’re not one, but two
are we evil or good?

[male soloist #4]
do we walk the fine line
that we’d cross if we could

[male soloist #3]
are we waiting-

[ensemble]
to break through the façade?

one or two
might look kinda-well-to-do
ha! they’re as bad as me and you

[women]
right-

[men]
down to their boots!

[ensemble]
right down to their boots!

[male soloist #4]
i’m inclined to think-

[ensemble]
half mankind
thinks the other half is blind
wouldn’t be surprised to find-

[male soloist #4]
they’re all in cahoots!

[ensemble]
at the end of the day
they don’t mean what they say
they don’t say what they mean
they will never come clean

[male soloist #2]
and the answer-

[women]
is it’s all a façade!

[men]
is it’s all a façade!

[ensemble]
man is not one, but two
he is evil and good
an’ he walks the fine line
we’d all cross if we could!

[male soloist #1]
it’s a nightmare

[male soloist #2]
we can never discard

[male soloist #4]
so, we stay on our guard

{male soloist #3]
but, we love the façade!

[ensemble]
what’s behind
the façade?

[male soloist #5]
look behind
the façade!

- frank wildhorn lyrics

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