Don't have much to say

Thought I'd call you up anyway

Just to try and tell you the way

That I feel today -

Oh, I miss you baby.

Sure, I'm on the road

I don't need to say much more

Just the same old well known stranger

That I was before -

Seems like yesterday.

Daddy's all gone

He's just a halfway home

He's holding on to the telephone

Singing "Please -

Don't let the show go on."

There's a bus every other hour

Even a midnight train

But that don't leave me the power

To see your face again -

It's not that simple anymore.

You see, there's a room full of smiling faces

And there's a man standing by the door

When he says it's time we take our places

And get down on the floor -

Oh, I'd like to kill him, baby.

Daddy's all gone

He's just a halfway home

He's hanging on to the microphone

Singing "Please -

Don't let the show go on."