The Actress Hasn`t Learned The Lines You`d Like To Hea Lyrics

The Actress Hasn`t Learned The Lines You`d Like To Hea lyrics

Madonna and Antonio Banderas---The Actress Hasn't Learned The Lines (You'd Like
To Hear) 

 lyrics by Tim Rice, music by Andrew Lloyd Webber 

 

 

 (Aristocrats:) 

 Thus all fairy stories end 

 Only an actress would pretend 

 Affairs of state are her latest play 

 Eight shows a week, two matinees 

 My how the worm begins to turn 

 When will the chorus girl ever learn? 

 My how the worm begins to turn 

 When will the chorus girl ever learn? 

 

 (Eva:) 

 The chorus girl hasn't learned the lines you'd like to hear 

 She won't go scrambling over the backs of the poor to be accepted 

 By making donations just large enough to the correct charity 

 She won't be president of your wonderful societies of philanthropy 

 Even if you asked her to be 

 As you should have asked her to be 

 

 The actress hasn't learned the lines you'd like to hear 

 She won't join your clubs, she won't dance in your halls 

 She won't help the hungry once a month at your tombolas 

 She'll simply take control as you disappear 

 

 (Che:) 

 Forgive my intrusion, but fine as those sentiments sound 

 Little has changed for us peasants down here on the ground 

 I hate to sound childish, ungrateful, I don't like to moan 

 But do you now represent anyone's cause but your own? 

 

 (Eva:) 

 Everything done will be justified by my foundation