Facade Lyrics

ALBERT
There's a face that we wear
in the cold light of day.

SIR DANVERS
It's society's mask, it's society's way.

ALBERT
And the truth is
that it's all a facade!

There's a face that we hide
till the nighttime appears.

UTTERSON
And what's hiding inside
behind all of our fears

ALBERT & UTTERSON
is our true self
locked inside the facade.

ENSEMBLE
Every day, people in their own sweet way
like to add a coat of paint
and be what they ain't!

ALBERT
That's how our little ...

ENSEMBLE
... game is played,
livin' out a masquerade,
actin' a bizzare charade.

UTTERSON
While playing the saint.
But there's one thing I know,
and I know it for sure:
this disease that we've got
has got no ready cure!
And I'm certain:
Life is terribly hard ...

ENSEMBLE
... when your life's a facade!

LADIES
Look around you, I have found
you cannot tell by lookin' at the surface
what is lurkin' there beneath it!

KATE
See that face!
Now I'm prepared to bet you:
what you see's not what you get
cause man's a master of deceit!

ENSEMBLE
So what is this sinster secret?
The lie he will tell you is true?

UTTERSON
It's that each man you meet on the street
isn't one man, but two!

ENSEMBLE
Nearly everyone you see
like him an' her an' you an' me
pretends to be a pillar of society.

LADIES
A model of propriety -

MEN
sobriety - and piety -

LADIES
who shudders at the thought of notoriety!

ENSEMBLE
The ladies and gents 'ere before you,
which none of 'em ever admits,
may have saintly looks,
but they're sinners and crooks:
Hypocrites!
Hypocrites!

There are preachers who kill,
there are killers who preach.
There are teachers who lie,
there are liars who teach.
Take yer pick, dear,
cause it's all a facade!

DAVIE
If we're not one but two,
are we evil or good?

MIKE
Do we walk the fine line
that we'd cross if we could?

ALBERT
Are we waiting ...

ENSEMBLE
... to break through the facade?

One or two
might look kinda well to do - hah!
They're as bad as me and you
right down to their boots!

UTTERSON
I'm inclined to think ...

ENSEMBLE
... half mankind
thinks the other half is blind!
Wouldn't be surprised to find ...

MIKE
... they're all in cahoots!

ENSEMBLE
At the end of the day
they don't mean what they say.
They don't say what they mean,
they don't ever come clean.

STRIDE
And the answer ...

ENSEMBLE
... is it's all a facade!

Man is not one but two,
he is evil and good
an' he walks the fine line
we'd all cross if we could!

DAVIE
It's a nightmare we can never discard,
so we stay on our guard,
though we love the facade ...

ENSEMBLE
Look behind the facade!
What's behind the facade?

ALBERT
Look behind the facade!