[Intro]
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After the audition, I shook his hand an drove away
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Charlie the director, called me on the following day
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He offered me the role, he said it was the one I was born to play
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[Verse]
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I met the lead actress, on a Thursday afternoon
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She looked like Rita Hayworth, she was living in a motel room
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Cameras started rolling, on the twenty second day of June
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[Pre-Chorus]
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'Cause everybody knows the show must go on
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Everybody knows
[Verse]
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There's hardly any money, everybody worked the scale
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Investors stated backing out on the night that Charlie went to jail
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Charlie called his father, you know his father put up a bail
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[Verse]
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Charlie had a habit, nearly everybody knew
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His attitude effected, the entire cast and crew
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He finally left the picture, but somehow we made it through
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[Chorus]
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'Cause everybody knows the show must go on
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'Till the last lines' been delivered, and the curtain is drawn
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And everybody knows the show must go on
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'Till the credits finish rollin' and the patience is gone
[Verse]
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Critics crucified me, they were clearly out for blood
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They said I'd never work again, and they dragged my name through the mud
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But under those conditions, I say I gave the best performance I could
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[Verse]
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Waiting outside his house on the night of the big premiere
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He came home drunk and he asked me "What the hell are you doing here?"
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The gun went off in my hand, you know it left a ringin' in my ear
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[Chorus]
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'Cause everybody knows the show must go on
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Everybody knows the show must go on
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Everybody knows the show must go on
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Everybody knows
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The show must go on
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The show must go on
[Instrumental outro]
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End on G