PETER GABRIEL - The Barry Williams Show lyrics

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Let's go<br><br>One man at the window<br>One girl at the bar<br>Saw that look of recognition<br>When they know just who you are<br>I seen you on the tv<br>I seen you on that show<br>You make the people crazy<br>And then you let them go<br><br>Before the show we calm them<br>We sympathise, we care<br>And the hostile folk we keep apart<br>‘til the red light says ‘on air'<br>Did you see our leather lovers<br>All tied up to the chair<br>Did you catch those child molesters<br>No one else goes there<br><br>What a show, the barry williams show<br>What a show,<br>Dysfunctional excess<br>Is all it took for my success<br>The greater pain that they endure<br>The more you know the show will scored<br>It's showtime<br><br>Got the reputation of a surgeon<br>‘cos they cannot feel the cut<br>It looks so very simple<br>But it really is an art<br>They call our studio ‘the hospital'<br>Making money from the sick<br>We let people be themselves<br>There is no other trick<br><br>‘my lover stole my girlfriend'<br>‘i keep beating up my ex'<br>‘i want to kill my neighbour'<br>‘my daughter's selling sex'<br>‘my s/m lover hurt me'<br>‘my girl became a man'<br>‘i love my daughter's rapist<br>‘my life's gone down the pan'<br><br>What a show, the barry williams show<br>The barry williams show<br>Dysfunctional excess<br>Is all it took for my success<br>And when the punches start to fly<br>The ratings always read so high<br>It's showtime<br><br>‘that girl has got no scruples'<br>Not a wrinkle on her face<br>You would not believe the plot she conceived<br>So they'd let her take my place<br>Well, no man is an island<br>No man is a sea<br>But this display of emotion<br>Is all but drowning me<br><br>What a show, oh what a show<br>On my show, the barry williams show<br>It's my show<br>What a show<br>Dysfunctional excess<br>Is all it took for my success<br><br>The best tv you've ever seen<br>Where people say the things that they really mean<br>I hear my name, I hear them roar<br>For the one more time I take the floor<br>Just one more barry williams show<br>We're gonna take you where you want to go<br>It's showtime<br><br>Come on down<br>Come on down