Take That Look Off Your Face from Song and Dance
Orlando Pops Orchestra Lyrics
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He's doing some deal up in Baltimore now... I hate it, when he's away!
You must be mistaken, I'm sure that you are! There's more than one car with stickers
on. And lots of young guys wear courdrary pants. And I'd know if he hadn't gone!
Take that look off yor face! (Take that look off yor face!) I can see through
your smile! (I can see through your smile!) You would love to be right, I bet, you
didn't sleep good last night, couldn't wait to bring all of these bad news to my
I'f I'm not mistaken, it started last year. I'm not very clear how it began
I noticed a change, but I just closed my eyes as only a woman can.
No, I didn't dig deep. (No, I didn't dig deep.) I did not want to know. (I did
not want to know.) Well, you don't interfere when you're scared of the things, you
might hear. When he's back, you think, I will end it right there and then? Well, my
fair weather friend- you're wrong again!
The song "Take That Look Off Your Face" by Orlando Pops Orchestra from Song and Dance is a narrative of an independent woman who is denying the fact that her lover has left her for another woman. Throughout the song, she is trying to convince herself that her man is innocent and there must be some misunderstanding. She starts by bluntly saying that the person who has told her about her man's affair is mistaken and he couldn't have seen her man yesterday. She then tries to find some logical explanation for the situation by giving examples of young men who wear courdrary pants and have cars with stickers on it. The lyricist has played with the contradicting emotions of the singer by projecting her anger and sorrow towards the end. She tells her fair-weather friend to take that look off her face and that she knew everything before her.
Line by Line Meaning
You must be mistaken! It couldn't have been! You couldn't have seen him yesterday!
I don't believe you, you must be wrong! He couldn't have been seen yesterday!
He's doing some deal up in Baltimore now... I hate it, when he's away!
He's doing business in Baltimore, and I don't like when he's gone.
You must be mistaken, I'm sure that you are! There's more than one car with stickers on. And lots of young guys wear courdrary pants. And I'd know if he hadn't gone!
You're definitely wrong, there are plenty of cars with those stickers, and many young guys wear those pants. Besides, I'd know if he hadn't gone.
Take that look off yor face! (Take that look off yor face!) I can see through your smile! (I can see through your smile!) You would love to be right, I bet, you didn't sleep good last night, couldn't wait to bring all of these bad news to my door. Well, I've got news for you: I knew before.
Stop looking at me like that! I know you're trying to prove me wrong with this news because you couldn't wait to tell me last night. But guess what? I already knew.
I'f I'm not mistaken, it started last year. I'm not very clear how it began I noticed a change, but I just closed my eyes as only a woman can.
If I'm not wrong, I noticed a change in him last year, but I ignored it as women often do.
No, I didn't dig deep. (No, I didn't dig deep.) I did not want to know. (I did not want to know.) Well, you don't interfere when you're scared of the things, you might hear. When he's back, you think, I will end it right there and then? Well, my fair weather friend- you're wrong again!
No, I didn't investigate further because I didn't want to know the truth. And you don't question things when you're scared of what you might find out. And even if I wanted to end it when he's back, you're still wrong for assuming that.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Peermusic Publishing
Written by: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black
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