A thousand hands, applaud tonight.
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 love, every night a different lover,
and yet I'm lonely all the time.
When I sign my autographs, when I hold an interview,
can't get you out of my mind.
I'm back my love, I'm 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.