Big Tears and Make-Up - Billie Ray Martin

Big tears and make-up

Can leave the traces

Of the secrets never found

In a million other faces

Big tears and make-up

Run many ways

But never never

Save your face

We could have been the next big thing

There wasn’t really that much to lose

But it turned out to be

Just another nightmare

In that everlasting daydream of the film I’m in

You played the part

Of an actor

Dragging me up into your screen

Where I knew I’d play the drama queen mmm

From the bottom of my heart

Big tears and make-up

Can leave the traces

Of the secrets never found

In a million other faces

Big tears and make-up

Can never (never) never (never) never

Save your time

Oh I never believed a word you said

But I agreed for a start

You paid me ten cents imagination

For a million-dollar part

And when the face melts to a scream

Close-up in the dark

The tears roll on and on and on

When you never really felt it was time

To start

Big tears and make-up

Can leave the traces

Of the secrets never found

In a million other faces

Big tears and make-up

(Big tears and make-up)

Can leave the traces

Of the secrets never found

In a thousand other faces