You work 689 days in a row,
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6 shows a day,
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15 Minute breaks,
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Is that showbiz?
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No matter how bad you feel,
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You could have a fever and the dry heaves
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From that left handed cigarette
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And shot of old crow you did between the first and secon show.
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You could have a social disease you caught
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From some platinum blonde bombshell in Boise.
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You could feel bad because you lost your wallet, your dog, your best friend
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Or even your wife.
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And no matter how bad you feel,
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When those house lights go down,
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A smile lights up your face
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Why? 'cause that's showbiz.
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You work, practice, woodshed,
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Suffer for your craft,
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Do the old soft shoe till your feet bleed
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Sing mammy till your throat swells
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All the while smiling though your face hurts.
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You do this for ten years
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And the day after the back page of some local rag says your great
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You see somebody better, and younger than yourself
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And he closes the show with a gag he stole from you,
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And that's showbiz.
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You reward? A fast car you never get to drive,
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Ex-wives and kids who do interviews with the scandal sheets
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A long cool broad who loves you for your name and your name only.
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This afternoon's pizza backstage of some dive you've played a hundred times before
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Where rats the size of a loaf of bread climb the walls and run the pipes
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Where the same drunk crudely delivers the same insults that you counter
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The same way every night.
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Except your delivery is a little different, and the people laugh.
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That's showbiz.
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Your up for the part of leading man in a full length feature film.
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And after you read, you get a part.
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One lousy line in a scene where you play the school janitor.
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So you say you're line with all the pizzaz and intensity of a Bogey
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Or an Edward G.
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And that's showbiz.
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So I say to all the little people
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Who spit shined and polished
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My long and jagged trail to the top, "Thank you."
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For without you, the little people, I would not be where I am today.
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It is truly you who are, showbiz.
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Come on! Give youself a round of applause,
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The little people! Give it up! Yeah!
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Please look for me in a new T.V. mini series drama
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Where I portray myself in the story of my life,
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Simply entitled "That's Showbiz."
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Thank you! You've been a wonderful audience!
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I love you and remember,
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That's showbiz! Good night!
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That's Showbiz
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| Reverend Horton Heat |
