You finish your sweet ballad and you start off stage
You pour out all your heart cause your part has it in the score
[you sing it girl]
Til' it's exit right

Then we go
[Backstage]
Where it's dangerous, we go
[Backstage]
Sets rotate on us, we go
[Backstage]
Where the lights are turned way down low
Behind skid row

On-stage you're acting in another play
On-stage you're vibrant and you sound okay
On-stage you sing and dance and serenade
You gotta stay in character and never fade

And on-stage you give it all to please the crowd
You gotta stay in balance not too soft or loud
The audience is listening to every word
But you said things they never heard!

[That's when went you went]
Backstage
Where you curse the dark
Backstage
"$%@#! I missed my mark"
Backstage
Move that wall there out of the way
Behind skid row
[behind skid row]
Behind skid row
[behind skid row]
Behind skid row
[behind skid row]
BEHIND SKID ROW!

Tripped!
Every scene I always get tripped
Either that or else I get dipped
And of course each night my dip slipped
Hit that floor kid
Oh!
I guess I knew I would land there
Right on the floor
But then there's more!
When I go backstage
I can't get across without squeezing through walls
Bumping my head
Take two more falls on my can!

When I go
[Backstage]
When you need to change, you go
[Backstage]
Where you feel the pain, you go
[Backstage]
When your out of lines then you fade
[Off to backstage]

Someone show me the way to cross over there
There's a set in my way, can't get over there
Other side, my next entrance is over there
Wish this blocking made sense, gotta get there

[Backstage]
God I sure wish I exited over there
[Backstage]
Now I just gotta get myself over there
[Backstage]
Squeeze behind that damn wall wet with paint back there
[Backstage]
Ouch! The fridge in my way, go around there

[Backstage]
Gee it sure would be swell to get over there
[Backstage]
No don't rotate the set, I'm not over there
[Backstage]
Wait don't bring up the lights 'till I'm over there
[Backstage]
Wait I tripped crawling through the set in the back
[Backstage]
Where it's dark, piles of lumber still in the back
[Backstage]
Got a prop on the other side in the back
[Backstage]
Leave me on-stage I don't wanna go off BACKSTAGE