A thousand hands applaud tonight
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I sing my songs my star shines bright
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I stop and smile I take my bow
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I leave the stage and then somehow
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Backstage I'm lonely, backstage I cry
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You've gone away and each night I seem to die a little
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Out on that stage I play the star
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I'm famous now I've come so far
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A famous fool I let love go
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I didn't know I'd miss you so
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Backstage I'm lonely, backstage I cry
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Hating myself since I let you say goodbye
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Every night a different room
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Every night a different club
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And yet I'm lonely all the time
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When I sign my autograph
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When I hold an interview
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Can't get you out of my mind
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Come back my love come back to me
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I need you now so desperately
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What good is fame it's just a game
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I'd give it all to be the same
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Backstage I wait now, hoping I'll see
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Your smiling face waiting there backstage for me
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Your smiling face waiting backstage for me
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Backstage
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Backstage
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Backstage (I'm Lonely)
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| Gene Pitney |
