Why Must the Show Go On? Lyrics

The director is drunk in the foyer

Can't find the exit door

And the star hears her five minute call

Slumped on her bathroom floor

And the paint in the green room is peeling

And I'm feeling it's time to be gone

Why Why Why

Why must the show go on?

The writer has notes for a cast

Who refuses to learn its lines

They stumble all over the shop

Props never appear in time

So they've silenced all of the critics

Who said their motivation was wrong

Why Why Why

Why must the show go on?

The producer can't rally the troops

But he won't admit defeat

Just when he should be cutting his losses

He's casting a brand new lead

He's paying off all of the judges

But the world isn't singing along

Why Why Why

Why must the show go on?

Why won't they just call it curtains?

How long is a piece of string?

Who'll pull the plug on the giant marquee?

Why won't the fat lady sing?

The circle fell down on the stalls

Landed on all of us

The audience streams down the aisles

Ghosts in our suits of dust

And that's what we get for our talking

And leaving our cellphones on

Why Why Why

Why must the show go on?

I gave my advice to the stagehand

Whose never allowed to go home

I said "just get out while you can"

As she swept up the stage with a comb

She just smiled, said "What and leave showbiz?"

And I knew this circus had won

Why Why Why

Why must the show go on?

I know this is what we all live for

So no one admits they are wrong

Why Why Why

Why must the show go on?