My days have little glamour Writing memos, making calls And wincing at the grammar Written on the bathroom walls It's all school supplies and budget size And wading through red tape That's why I love the theater It's how I escape So, theater is a distraction? Is that what you mean? A distraction is momentary An escape helps you heal We look to you To take us away From the soul-crushing jobs And emasculating pay When our lives come up short And our hopes are sad and few You whisk us off to some place strange and new We look to you In good times and bad The worlds you create Make the real ones seem less sad The curtain goes up And every now and then it feels as if we're coming home again Yes, coming home again We need a place to run to When everything goes wrong When the answer to each problem Is to burst into a song And standard rules of logic just simply don't apply When people dance in unison And no one wonders why You make it sound so beautiful We look to you As strange as it seems When reality goes to scary new extremes So don't ever give up And this I guarantee Next time you think no one cares You can look to me
My days have little glamour
Writing memos, making calls
And wincing at the grammar
Written on the bathroom walls
It's all school supplies and budget size
And wading through red tape
That's why I love the theater
It's how I escape
So, theater is a distraction? Is that what you mean?
A distraction is momentary
An escape helps you heal
We look to you
To take us away
From the soul-crushing jobs
And emasculating pay
When our lives come up short
And our hopes are sad and few
You whisk us off to some place strange and new
We look to you
In good times and bad
The worlds you create
Make the real ones seem less sad
The curtain goes up
And every now and then it feels as if we're coming home again
Yes, coming home again
We need a place to run to
When everything goes wrong
When the answer to each problem
Is to burst into a song
And standard rules of logic just simply don't apply
When people dance in unison
And no one wonders why
You make it sound so beautiful
We look to you
As strange as it seems
When reality goes to scary new extremes
So don't ever give up
And this I guarantee
Next time you think no one cares
You can look to me