“The Barry Williams Show” – Peter Gabriel, from “Growing Up Live”

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1. Fu(k them faggot wrestlers, they all sound like they are needing a laxetive and are backed up and constipated. I wish they would go take a dump on the throne and get over their arrogant movie star BS superficial crap.
   PS Yea instead of that POS Peter Gabriel clown I got those clown boy wrestlers :
   I do not know what is worse. 🙁

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   1. Peter Gabriel, the no hit wonder.

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2. I think this song does a good job calling out Trash TV Talk Shows (example: “The Jerry Springer Show”).

   “The Barry Williams Show”

   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 seen you on the tv
   i seen you on that show
   you make the people crazy
   and then you let them go

   before the show we calm them
   we sympathise, we care
   and the hostile folk we keep apart
   ’til 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,
   dysfunctional excess
   is all it took for my success
   the greater pain that they endure
   the more you know the show will scored
   it’s showtime

   got the reputation of a surgeon
   ‘cos 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’
   ‘i keep beating up my ex’
   ‘i want to kill my neighbour’
   ‘my daughter’s selling sex’
   ‘my s/m 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
   the barry williams show
   dysfunctional excess
   is all it took for my success
   and when the punches start to fly
   the ratings always read so high
   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
   dysfunctional excess
   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 take you where you want to go
   it’s showtime

   come on down
   come on down

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   1. 🙂 for sur Angel 😉

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