The Show Must Go On

Album: Silverbird (1973)
Charted: 2
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  • Baby, although I chose this lonely life
    It seems it's strangling me now
    All the wild men, big cigars, gigantic cars
    They're all laughing at me now

    Oh I've been used
    I've been taken for a fool, oh what a fool
    I broke all the rules
    But I won't let the show go on

    Baby look there's an enormous crowd of people
    And they're all after my blood
    I wish maybe they'd tear down the walls
    Of this theatre and let me out, let me out

    Oh I've been so blind
    I've wasted time
    Wasted, wasted, oh so much time
    Walking on the wire, high wire
    But I won't let the show go on

    Oh I've been so blind
    I've wasted time
    Wasted, wasted, oh so much time
    Walking on the wire, high wire

    But I won't let the show go on
    Baby I wish you'd help me escape
    And help me get away
    Leave me outside my address

    Far away from this masquerade
    I've been so used I've been so abused
    I've been a fool I broke all the rules
    I've been so used oh and abused

    But I won't let the show go
    I said I won't let the show oh
    Won't let the show go on Writer/s: Brian May, Freddie Mercury, John Deacon, Roger Taylor
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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