Clap! Clap! (Mirror Song) (Written By Cohen, Perfo Lyrics

(Michael)         I never thought I'd get this far

(Audience)        We always knew you would

(Michael)         I've put a little weight on

(Audience)        Not really, it looks good.

(Michael)         These lines around my mouth are new

(Audience)        They're the lines of wisdom

(Michael)         This puffiness around my eyes?

(Audience)        The burden of the kingdom!

(Michael)         You know I like to talk with you

(Audience)        We do too, we never knew
                  Someone who we could talk to
                  Who was quite as smart as you.

                  We would like to hear you talk all night
                  But tell us if we might
                  Interrupt you with applause
                  If you should chance to pause.
                  We would love to rock the walls
                  Again and again with curtain calls
                  And a standing ovation
                  For your brilliant conversation ...

(Michael)         Clap, clap!
                  Now silence
 
                  Have you noticed people wear...

(Audience)        Copies of your favourite hat?

(Michael)         You have noticed that my dears?

(Audience)        O yes we have noticed that.

(Michael)         They wear copies of my shoes

(Audience)        Two by twos they wear your shoes

(Michael)         And they like to sing my blues

(Audience)        Echoes of your ah's and ooh's.

(Michael)         You know I like to talk with you

(Audience)        We do too, we never knew
                  Someone who we could talk to
                  Who was quite as smart as you.

(Michael)         I'm afraid that I've become
                  For nearly everyone
                  A model of behaviour
                  A devil or a saviour.

(Audience)        He's afraid that he's become
                  For next to nearly everyone
                  The very latest model of behaviour
                  He's a devil, he's a saviour

(Michael)         They read my news and
                    they hold their views
                  On whether I'm the devil
                    or a saviour

(Audience)        He's afraid that he's become
                  For almost everyone
                  The very latest model of behaviour
                  He's a devil, he's a saviour

(Michael)         I'm the very latest model of behaviour

                  But I've paid my dues

(Audience)        We know you have!
                  We hold your views!

(Michael)         You read my news?

(Audience)        Of course we do!

(Michael)         I've been a bum.
                  
(Audience)        How very, very, very, very far you've come!

(Michael)         I've crossed this country on my thumb.
                  I've met a lot of people...

(Audience)        Good and evil?

(Michael)         Good and evil!
                  I've been up hills

(Audience)        You've been down hills.

(Michael)         I've been on junk.

(Audience)        You've beaten junk.

(Michael)         I don't mean pills

(Audience)        You don't mean pills!

(Michael)         I mean the needle

(Audience)        He means the needle
                  He means the needle!
                  He means the needle!

(Michael)         I've noticed my words on everyone's lips
                  And women are always leaving me slips
                  Of paper
                  I'm supposed to get back to them later
                  And sometimes I do

(Audience)        It's only your due
                  After all that you've been through
                  To lie down with some grateful stranger

                  To think he honours someone's bed
                  With his wine and with his bread
                  And his legendary member
                  It is April in December

                  It's charity
                  It's religion
                  Saint Francis with the birds
                  Jesus with the leper
                  Please talk to us forever
                  And ever and ever

(Michael)         Clap, clap
                  Now silence!

                  But now I make my confession
                  Before all the mirrors of history
                  This power was given to me
                  It must have been given to me
                  For something more
                  Than a star on the door
                  And a foot in this shabby profession

(Audience)        This is surely the sound
                  Of the most profound
                  Remark that has ever been made
                  From the pulpit or the stage
                  Or even the gates of heaven

(Michael)         There's something waiting for me
                  There's something I must feel
                  There's something that must bend its knee
                  And I must see it kneel

                  There's nothing to be conquered there
                  A beast that keeps the crown
                  And marble steps into the air
                  And one man looking down


(Audience)        He's smiling
                  He's smiling

                  There is something that is waiting for him
                  Something that he must feel
                  Something that must bend its knee
                  And it's he must see it kneel

                  There is something to be conquered there
                  There's a beast that keeps the crown
                  And marble steps into the air
                  And one man looking down 

                  Smiling, smiling

(Michael)         Clap clap!

(Audience)        Smiling, smiling

(Michael)         Clap, clap!