♪ Jekyll & Hyde - façade LYRICS ♫

Enjoy J&H

[sheldees]

I love the hint of hidden sarcasm in the lyrics and performance.

[carryoncandace]

My school's musical theater performed this for our last concert of the year, and I've fallen in love with this song! The choreography was incredible and the singing was amazing. Such sass in the choreography.

[branphillips]

If all of society is a facade, a deception hiding our true natures, then does that make a person who is honest about themselves a fool or the most powerful person in the world?

[doctordeathdefying]

This is how I see the world. There’s different versions of yourself, and it all depends on who you’re with to see which version of yourself comes out. It’s really interesting, how no one else I know notices. For example, if you’re around a certain person for a long enough time, you’ll notice the way that they can switch ways they work, they’re valued at a given time. Everyone wears at least one mask. Whether it’s that you’re perfectly fine, that you’re perfectly perfect in every way, that you’re not mad, that you’re not scared, it’s all a facade.

[PPRMasked]

English teacher showed me this, now I'm listening to it a bunch.

Help.

[bronwenjones]

This was stuck in my head even though I heard it about 5 years ago

[Roseylyve]

Am I the only one imagining Hyde singing this with a group of bandits/gangmembers/all the criminals on the street? No?

[vicentepons]

I'm gratefully surprised. I was looking for Disturbed's song under the same title and gave a chance to this one. Nice, intense one.

[arianapadilla]

I've gotta wonder why the town is so upset with Hyde when they sing a whole song about how they're all secretly evil too. They sing about the line we'd all cross if we could, but get mad that someone chooses to cross the line 🙄 Sorry Hyde doesn't adhere to your facade, he's being his true self

[rachelbrinkley]

This feels like they’re own ‘At the end of the day’ introduction piece…I absolutely love this and don’t know why I didn’t discover this musical sooner. I’m blown away by ‘Confrontation’ too. They way the performer has to switch between the 2 personalities in that song, arguing together blows me away.

[southanime]

I want a decent videogame of dr jekill and mr hyde with this soundtrack

[jacksonholt]

This song, though it's not my favorite--perfectly embodies the show as a whole.

In the show (AND ABSOLUTELY IN LIFE), we have different "masks" that we put on, so that different people perceive us in a different way. You may act a certain way towards your family, but to a stranger, your significant other's family, people of power, etc--you'll probably act VASTLY different.

There's nothing *wrong* with this; that's human nature. But I do think it's satisfying to the audience, that after Dr. Jekyll is denied, the board only saw "A frustrated scientist, hoping to help humanity via controversial methods"--but once Hyde begins hunting them down, they now see: "So...THIS is the true pain behind our decision/this is the part of Jekyll he didn't want to show the world?"

Of course; most of the people never knew that Jekyll and Hyde were the same, but the MESSAGE that's conveyed, towards the AUDIENCE-- WE get that mindset.

It's brilliant, in a morbid, disorganized and chaotic sort of way.

[robintheking]

The current scandals in Hollywood make this song more relevant than ever before.

[BubbleGum]

I'm addicted to this song! It's brilliant! 🎧🎶🎶

[kathrynhardin]

I'm a nerd, so every time a guy breaks my heart this song starts playing in my head all ominously lol

[destroissomething]

This is the opener to our marching band show I’m listening to get a feel for the Rhythm and it’s addicting

[hilted]

There are songs that are good, then there are songs... that are true.

[aileenlin]

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 fears,
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,
Livin' like a masquerade
Actin' 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 lookin' at the surface,  
What is lurkin' there beneath it!
See that face!
Now, I'm 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
In the street
Isn't one man but two!

Nearly everyone you see -
Like him an' her,
An' you, an' me -
Pretends to be
A pillar of society -
A model for propriety -
Sobriety 
An' piety -
Who shudders at the thought
Of notoriety!

The ladies an' gents 'ere before you -
Which none of 'em ever admits -
May 'ave saintly looks -
But they're sinners an' crooks!

Hypocrites!
Hypocrites!

There are preachers who kill!
There are killers who preach!
There are teachers who lie!
There are liars who teach!
Take yer 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 kinda well-to-do -
Hah! They're bad as me an' you,
Right down they're 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!
Is it's all a façade!
Man is not one, but two,
He is evil and good,
An' 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!

[knightfsnails]

This song is really good on a music and logical playing field for the musical genius that goes into the song lyrics discussion on the human façade in dead on, and how a human will ware a mask or in this case a façade to get what they want.

[divamonkey]

My life's philosophy... Love this song!