although I chose this lonely life
 It seems it's strangling me now
 AII the wild men with big cigars and gigantic cars
 They're all laughing at me now.
 Oh! I've been used oo-hoo
 I've been taken for a fool - oh what a fool
 I broke all the rules
 oh yeah
 But I won't let the show go on.

 Baby 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
 oh yeah
 I've wasted tine
 wasted
 wasted
 oh so much time
 Walking on the wire
 the 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
 Fa@r 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
 No
 I won't let the show
 No
 I won't let the show go on.