DAVID STEREO NYC - BACKSTAGE LIVES Lyrics

The audience is seated as actors paint their faces
To hear lines unrepeated the actors take their places
It's drama for both sides the play's about to start
Fate writes the script in blank verse the curtains part on
Backstage Lives who gets to sleep with who
Backstage Lives when the night is through
Who does the casting for those roles
Backstage Lives yeah the play's the thing
Backstage Lives the conscience of the king
Is always thinking of those Backstage Lives
The hero has a tough time his girl's a mobsters' honey
He must go and commit crime cause she wants lots of money
The cops are closing in he reaches for his gun
The audience gets nervous and that's act one of
Backstage Lives who gets to sleep with who
Backstage Lives when the night is through
Who does the casting for those roles
Backstage Lives yeah the play's the thing
Backstage Lives the conscience of the king
Is always thinking of those backstage lives
After the intermission our hero finds he's in jail
He faces the decision that his girl won't post his bail
She wants to be a singer she dreams of broadways' bright lights
He's going through the ringer she wants those nights of
Backstage Lives who gets to sleep with who
Backstage Lives when the night is through
Who does the casting for those roles
Backstage Lives yeah the play's the thing
Backstage Lives the conscience of the king
Is always thinking of those backstage lives
Backstage Lives x 4