Peter Gabriel
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[Intro]
Let's go
[Verse 1]
One man at the window, one girl at the bar
Saw that look of recognition when they know just who you are
I've seen you on the TV, I've seen you on that show
You make the people crazy, and then you let them go
Before the show we calm them we sympathize, we care
And the hostile folk we keep apart till the red light says 'on air'
Did you see our leather lovers all tied up to the chair?
Did you catch those child molesters?
No one else goes there
[Chorus]
What a show
(The Barry Williams Show)
What a show
What a show
Dysfunctional excess
(The Barry Williams Show)
(What a show)
Is all it took for my success
(What a show)
The greater pain that they endure
(The Barry Williams Show)
The more you know the show will scored
(It's showtime)
[Verse 2]
Got the reputation of a surgeon because they cannot feel the cut
It looks so very simple, but it really is an art
They call our studio 'the hospital' making money from the sick
We let people be themselves, there is no other trick
'My lover stole my girlfriend, keep beating up my ex'
'I want to kill my neighbour, my daughter's selling sex'
'My SM lover hurt me, my girl became a man'
'I love my daughter's rapist, my life's gone down the pan'
[Chorus]
What a show
(The Barry Williams Show)
It's my show
(What show)
(The Barry Williams show)
Dysfunctional excess
(What show)
Is all it took for my success
(What show)
And when the punches start to fly
(The Barry Williams show)
The ratings always read so high
(What show)
It's showtime
[Interlude]
[Verse 3]
'That girl has got no scruples' not a wrinkle on her face
You would not believe the plot she conceived
So they'd let her take my place
Well, no man is an island, no man is a sea
But this display of emotion is all, but drowning me
[Chorus]
What a show
Oh, what a show
On my show
The Barry Williams Show
It's my show
(What a show)
(The Barry Williams Show)
(What a show)
Dysfunctional excess
(What a show)
Is all it took for my success
[Outro]
The best TV you've ever seen
Where people say the things that they really mean
I hear my name, I hear them roar
For the one more time I take the floor
Just one more Barry Williams Show
We're gonna to take you where you want to go
(Showtime)
It's showtime
Come on down
Come on down
Come on down
Come on down
Down
Come on down
Come on down
Come on down
Come on down
Come on down
Come on down
Come on down
Yeah
The Barry Williams Show was written by Peter Gabriel.
The Barry Williams Show was produced by Peter Gabriel.
Peter Gabriel released The Barry Williams Show on Mon Sep 23 2002.
Peter Gabriel posted on his website:
‘The Barry Williams Show’ is definitely an observation on TV culture and I didn’t realize at the time of choosing the name Barry Williams, which was effectively out of a hat, that there would be various well known Barry Williams; there’s a Welsh Rugby Player and...