I sing my songs    my star shines bright
 I stop and smile   I take my bow
 I leave the stage and then somehow

 Backstage I'm lonely, backstage I cry
 You've gone away and each night I seem to die a little

 Out on that stage    I play the star
 I'm famous now   I've come so far
 A famous fool   I let love go
 I didn't know I'd miss you so

 Backstage I'm lonely, backstage I cry
 Hating myself since I let you say goodbye

 Every night a different room
 Every night a different club
 And yet I'm lonely all the time
 When I sign my autograph
 When I hold an interview
 Can't get you out of my mind

 Come back my love   come back to me
 I need you now   so desperately
 What good is fame   it's just a game
 I'd give it all to be the same

 Backstage I wait now, hoping I'll see
 Your smiling face waiting there backstage for me
 Your smiling face waiting backstage for me
 Backstage
 Backstage