70 Favorite Songs: 61. Take a Bow

 

Take a bow, the night is over
This masquerade is getting older
Light are low, the curtains down
There’s no one here
Say your lines but do you feel them
Do you mean what you say when there’s no one around
Watching you, watching me, one lonely star

I’ve always been in love with you
I guess you’ve always known it’s true
You took my love for granted, why oh why
The show is over, say good-bye

Make them laugh, it comes so easy
When you get to the part
Where you’re breaking my heart
Hide behind your smile, all the world loves a clown
Wish you well, I cannot stay
You deserve an award for the role that you played
No more masquerade, you’re one lonely star

All the world is a stage
And everyone has their part
But how was I to know which way the story’d go
How was I to know you’d break
You’d break my heart

I’ve always been in love with you
Guess you’ve always known
You took my love for granted, why oh why
The show is over, say good-bye

Say good-bye, say good-bye
Say good-bye

Composer(s) / Performer: Babyface, Madonna / Madonna 
First Released: 1994
Album: Bedtime Stories
Genre: Pop (or Canto-pop)
First Heard In: MTV
Why I Love It: oh, it’s overly sentimental but I love it for being overly sentimental
Also Listen To: everything Madonna is worth listening to, if only just to track her reinventions. Of her albums, I love Bedtime Stories and Ray of Light the most.

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