Peter Gabriel - The Barry Williams Show lyrics

Let's go

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

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)

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'

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

'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

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

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