Peter Gabriel - The Barry Williams Show
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Stumble Thisit wasn't until after the song was written and recorded that Peter Gabriel found out that there was an American actor named Barry Williams.
Gabriel then invited Williams ('Greg Brady') to appear in the video (@1:33)
featuring Chris McDonald, probably best known as Shooter in Happy Gilmore.
live cut available here.
Gabriel then invited Williams ('Greg Brady') to appear in the video (@1:33)
featuring Chris McDonald, probably best known as Shooter in Happy Gilmore.
live cut available here.
one man at the window, one girl at the bar.
saw that look of recognition when they know just who you are.
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 sympathize. 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 score.
it's showtime.
got the reputation of a surgeon 'cuz 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 neighbor', '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.
dysfunctional excess is all it took for my success.
and when the punches start to fly?
the ratings always read so high.
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.
showtime.
that girl has got no scruples, not a wrinkle on her face.
you would not believe the plot she conceived,
so they 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.
but i heard the tune long before the video came out, and thought the lyrics had a slightly different ending in mind.
sounded to me like barry finds out he's finally being replaced, by some backstabbing bimbo cohost.
so on his last show, he kills her, on air. what a show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_fnUc632wo