Performed on 2017/02/16, Taipei, Taiwan
Conductor：Fang-Pei Tracy Lien 連芳貝
Pianist：Hsin-Jung Hsieh 謝欣容
Violin：陳玉芬、黃柏璇
Viola：陳梅君
Cello：邱應欽
Vocal percussion：顏仁宣、林奕辰、李訓權
Composer：Frank Wildhorn
Choral arrangement：Fang-Pei Tracy Lien 連芳貝
String quartet & piano arrangement：Eric Liu 劉新誠
Choreography：NTUChorus 台大合唱團
There's a face that we wear
In the cold light of day
It's society's mask
It's society's way
And the truth is
That it's all a façade!
There's a face that we hide
Till the nighttime appears
And what's hiding inside
Behind all of our fear is our true self
Locked inside the façade!
Every day
People in their own sweet way
Like to add a coat of paint
And be what they ain't
That's how our little game is played
Living out a masquerade
Acting a bizarre charade
While playing the saint!
But there's one thing I know
And I know it for sure
This disease that we've got
Has got no ready cure!
And I'm certain
Life is terribly hard
When your life's a façade
Look around you
I have found
You cannot tell by looking at the surface
What is lurking there beneath it!
See that face!
Now I prepared to bet you
What you see's not what you get
'Cause man's a master of deceit
So what is the sinister secret?
The lie he will tell you is true?
It's that each man you meet on the streets
Isn't one man but two!
Nearly everyone you see
Like him and her and you and me
Pretends to be a pillar of society
A model of propriety
Sobriety and piety
Who shudder at the thought of notoriety!
The ladies and gents here before you
Which none of them ever admits
May have saintly looks
But they're sinners and crooks!
Hypocrites! Hypocrites!
There are preachers who kill!
There are killers who preach!
There are teachers who lie!
There are liars who teach!
Take your pick, dear
'Cause it's all a façade!
If we're not one but two
Are we evil or good?
Do we walk the fine line
That we'd cross if we could?
Are we waiting
To break through the façade?
One or two might look kind a well-to-do
Hah! They're bad as me and you
Right down to their boots!
I'm inclined to think half mankind
Thinks the other half is blind
Wouldn't be surprise to find
They're all in cahoots!
At the end of the day
They don't mean what they say
They don't say what they mean
They don't ever come clean
And the answer is it's all a façade
Man is not one but two
He is evil and good
And he walks the fine line
We'd all cross if we could
It's a nightmare we can never discard
So we stay on our guard
Though we love the façade
What's behind the façade?
Look behind the façade!
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