If I couldn't sing

How love's the hardest easy thing

And if I couldn't sing you my life

Hiding here in the spotlight

And if you couldn't hear me

If I couldn't feel

If I couldn't feel your touch again

When nerve ends fray

And there's nothing to say

Not even a prayer

It's a beautiful night somewhere

Ohh ohh

If I couldn't say it now

Tell me how

If this is love and love is all we've got

You can show me what it is

I can show you what it's not

If this is love don't act surprised when you get hurt

Even if our dreams lay in the dirt

We were once the greatest show on earth

Is that a smile or a tear?

Is it all show business here?

The cinema that is stained glass

You're at the altar at our wedding mass

Is this a church of love or fear?

Have we made God feel like a stranger here?

Ohh ohh

Say it now

Tell me how

If this is love and love is all we've got

You can show me what it is

I can show you what it's not

If this is love, we make cathedrals of our hurt

People digging their dreams out of the dirt

We were once the greatest show on earth

Love is a business that works at night

I sold myself for less than was right

You taught me what I was worth

In the greatest show on earth

Made a profession out of breaking your heart

You call it lies, I call it art

I was some of your best work

We were once the greatest show on earth

Love is a business you shouldn't trust

Breathe on me and I'm love and I'm lust

Forever or a flirt?

The greatest show on earth

The light scatters things can get worse

These dark matters of the universe

Could not compete with us

We were once the greatest show on earth