1.Showbiz
Well here we are and here we go up the hill and down the slope
pardon me if i seem out of breath bus was late so i walked
instead there's nobody quite like me isn't that presumably what
it is th
Y you're looking for ballad singer with a guitar okay so guitar
was the part i got wrong the rest of me surely is what you want.
wait a minute who is this he needs a psychiatrist either that or
Give me strength (would do if i knew the way it went) you say
you sing slow songs and fast numbers too do you know volare (is
that her next to you) i'm running round in circles i'm getting
so fo
Whatever so forlorn's supposed to mean i'm sick of good
intentions whatever their intent on being who's responsibility
lies in sending him to me tell me and i'll tear them limb from
limb i said
Monro not gunga din. our members will see him and eat him alive
no two ways about it or three or four or five 0ne day you'll see
i'll he enormous (then here's a tip lay off your fookin they'll
F me and my performance it's
Was superb (don't make me laugh) the best we've heard (you must
he daft) false modesty is not for me solo the way to skin a
rabbit the way to comb a hare i know which one of those i'd
rather hee
I'm sure would the rabbit who only wants to live and breed i
write each and all my songs always have done all along so if you
want 'my way' i can do every song in my way just for you h
Occurred to you that i might not be well i've got a heart that
needs a bypass i can tell so here we are together then you and
me the best of friends (best of friends you must be off your
head)
Bout employer then instead we have to work closely and mostly we
do we're at opposite ends of an industry without any smoke it's
boiler being only fired by hope it is showbiz
2.Dear Dream
Dear dream of mine am i wasting time thinking that you will be
my dream come true dear dream i guess if the answer is yes what
must i do if i'm to get to you it's not as though i haven't
tried h
Ven had myself barred from taking a rest but like a lot of
things in life when your down nothing comes round that isn't a
mess dear dream i pray that you will come my way give me a clue
of how t
To of how to get to of how to get to you solo you have no idea
what its like to be told get out of clothes you look too bizarre
the list of don't call us and we won't call you has in my view
be
Too large dear dream of mine am i wasting my time thinking that
you will be my dream come will be my dream come will be my dream
come true and he can't wait another day sometimes he thinks
he'll
Nsane how can he be so close and yet very far is there something
that he should know some place maybe he can go to in search of
you. dear dream of mine am i wasting my time thinking that you
wil
My dream come will be my drea
M come will be my dream come true
3.I Wish I Could Cry
Day by day someone we really love seems to feel the pain we're
always thinking of but you know if only we were the men that
we're supposed to be that wouldn't happen again i wish i could
cry i w
Could cry i wish i could cry i cry today i wish i could die i
wish i could die i do wish i'd die away now i fear we must
accept the fact that what happened here was simply a vicious act
and you
I just can't help wondering how long it will be before somebody
else must bow i wish i could cry i wish i could cry i wish i
could cry i cry today i wish i could die i wish i could die i do
wis
Die away
4.Nothing To Fear
Love your music and love the songs only query, don't get me
wrong is this really the way you appear then again if you feel
it's right go ahead if it's what you like you got (you got) you
got (yo
) nothing to fear see that building with all it's floor see
those people go out it's doors they don't know it but they're
why you're here make a record that they all bum make it
appealing to eve
M you got (you got) you got (you got) nothing to fear so you've
had a bad experience and you don't know who to trust well if you
want me to represent you then in me you must trust i'm not
promis
Ou the earth i'll bow out if it doesn't work you got (you got)
got (you got) nothing to fear have to say when i heard your
voice wa
Sure if it was my choice then i listened again and i could hear
don't ask why but i'm certain you will make it big and the day
you do you got (you got) you got (you got) nothing to fear but
supp
N the studio (i'm)(he's)unhap
Py with a take will you let (me)do it again (him) (of course i
will say okay) don't be worried about your songs i'll 1ook after
them every one you got (you got) you got (you got) nothing to
fear
5.Pretty Polly
Pretty polly what have you done to your hair keeping it in
rollers won't get it nowhere neither will it turn you into what
your mother prescribed when your father forgot don't you think
the boys
D be looking at you after all you've got what it takes for them
too plus a little extra which i feel sure will knock every
knocker of diana's door. it isn't funny i know but what's the
point me
Ng around when all i get from seeing you is browned off, browned
don't want the male population run wild all we ask is will one
Young man be anxious enough to take you off my hands
6.Can't Find My Way Home
Nothing you can do or say after the fact even with experience
which i don't lack i'm like a little lamb that i can't find my
way home. read about it talked about it even asked wanted it to
happe
Now it has i'm a little lamb that i can't find my way home.
samson and delilah even beauty and the beast have about as much
in common as chalk to cheese yet it didn't seem to matter all
that th
Re really after is this thing i am in. why in spite of warning
voices which i heed why instead a suit of armour l don't need
don't un
And it it's impossible to say i've been out with girls before
but never felt this way where do i go for advice a lamb with
wool over his eyes sitting here full of hear they say that all
in love
Ir i don't agree here am i in love and look what it's done to me
for like a little lamb that can find my way
7.Dishonorable Profession
This is a dishonorable profession brought about by people who
think right first will take a kid and when he's earned a bit
we'll fleece him push him on the stage then push him to one side
this i
Ishonorable profession even thieves would treat their own more
kind and the man who gets his ten per cent will go on to become
a president while you will just barely survive. such is a
dishonora
Rofession where success however great is despised ana while you
say that you are in it only for the music managers and agents
view this with delight. such is a dishonorable profession once
you'v
Sed the age of thirty-five your career is as good as up though
your songs might still be good enough the business is saying bye
bye. sign on the dotted line and soon you'll he in the big time
ma
A fortune for let's see the management and the record company
age of thirty-five your career is as good as up though your
songs mi
Till be good enough the busin
Ess is saying bye bye.
8.You Don't Own Me／if I Know You
You may have given me the breaks, amended all my life's mistake
ooh but wait a minute you don't own me you may be more than just
a friend on whose assistance i depend ooh but wait a minute you
d
Own me what makes you think you have the right today that l owe
you my life a life you say is your life only nothing to do with
me well don't forget for all your power even in my darkest hour
yo
't own me you may be fully in control of every dream i'll ever
hold ooh but wait a minute you don't own me in times of trouble
and despair although i'm glad that you were there ooh but wait a
mi
You don't own me i know it sounds so very cruel to have to day i
don't want you after all the love you've shown me let's, not
start a feud i'm not your slave don't you forget it, and even if
i l
O regret it you don't own me why must you always be so right why
can't you never be wrong it's not a crime to say you're sorry
and it don't take long no it don't take long if it only takes a
min
O say a crime thing that's ni
Ce if it only takes a minute then why not twice i should have
known from the start this would happen from the moment we went
anywhere if other people so much as looked at me you'd be
screaming b
Urder i swear and yet you say that my leaving doesn't hurt you
in the least but even if that's true you'll do all in your power
to destroy me if i know you you day how much, you respect what
i'm
G you say how high you regard my ideas and yet for years as you
stood in the background you never once let me up off my knees
now despite you declaring you understand the way feel now that
we ar
Ough
9.Nobody Wants To Know
Once i was hailed as a prodigal son in other words loved by
everyone now it's so different wherever i go nobody wants to
know tried having meetings running about same as i did when i
started out
Though different wherever i go nobody wants to know could have
been normal and look like the rest but i in my wisdom decided
instead to create an image and this at a time when image was one
word
Dy minded you being abusive too standing in doorways for hours
on end waiting to get back a tape i send and when i get it what
does it show nobody wants to know sign on the door say's better
com
So i enter and play them my songs they tell me (all the ones
that you had bits with in the early days were great and, while
the new ones really sound bang up to date there's not a market
for a s
Of your age unless of course he's dead (dead! that's it you got
a deal look at buddy holly, roy orbison and elvis why he sold
more records after his death than he ever did when he was alive
you
E a sensation number one all
Over again i an see it now his twenty gravest hits) sooner or
later i will succeed good luck and timing is all i need but for
the moment where can i go nobody wants to know licking my wounds
fro
Only my face is getting to be so be so common place that even
the angel my guardian one supposedly there to protect me
anonymously is as nervous as can be i have no reason at all to
suspect hat
F me adds to my neglect not that it matters cancel the show
nobody wants to know
10.Young At Heart(We'll Always Remain)
Young at heart we may he only young at heart hut we're not
lonely if anything we're never in but we're out young at heart
if we are only young at heart then let us slowly unwind our say
only way
Now how young at heart you can so easily become a part of any
new fangled dancing craze like the way that you did when we were
kids young at heart we may he only young at heart but even so
we're
First to admit we're at that stage even though we might act our
(it's so important to play your part) don't let them tell you
your
Too old wearing clothes in a way that's up to date young at
heart if we are only young at heart you never know we could
still surprise, tantalize even with bags under our eyes young at
heart we
Lways (young at heart we'll always) young at heart well always
remain.
11.I've Never Been Short Of A Smile
As you know when the girl of your dreams
Doesn't seem to exist
If you want my opinion then here's what it is
Don't tell your wife she'll kill ya
And who knows maybe one day you'll wake up
And walk to the door
Where's she's waiting impatient this daughter of yours
Saying give me away dad will ya
Try proving suicide is painless
And who are those that claim this
The only way to die and to die again
As i recall i entertain an empty hall
Doesn't bother me in the slightest if a mirror's cracked
It could be that a missing screw is all it lacked
I'll walk under ladders but the funny thing is each time
I do i go flying
I've had moments when depression seemed the only cure
Days when doubts were all about but now i'm sure
Despite loosing battles that i know if i could win
I've never been short of a smile
As you know you can stand to attention while wiggling your toes
It's a breach of the rules but in boots i suppose
You could be forgiven
As you go into work on a sunday
You hazard guess wasn't sunday the one day
We all used to rest
I've never been short of smile
You cannot have your cake and eat it
But given a piece why keep it
What purpose is being served
If you leave it lying on a tray
Only to be thrown away
If invited to a party as a rule of thumb
If there's not a kitchen in it i won't come
I known that it's boring but at least you don't have to speak
You just up the heat
If there's one good thing about me then it ought to be
Even when i'm up against adversity
Despite my misgivings on the shape that i'm in
I've never been short of a smile
(it's so easy to forget) (every time you draw your breath)
(should be hung up on the wall) (a reminder to us all) that
however much we moan all our lives we've only one to live solo
to be or not
E what is it about this phrase that gives it a meaning so
profound that if shakespeare were here today i bet he'd throw it
all away doesn't bother me the slightest if a cat is black it
could be
A pot of paint had turned him that i'll walk under ladders but
the funny thing every time i do i go flying i've had moments
when depression seemed the only cure days when i was burning up
now i'
E despite my resentment of the pain i was in i've never been
short of a smile
12.Showbiz(Reprise)
The way to skin a rabbit the way to comb a hare i know which one
of those i'd rather heed as i'm sure would the rabbit who only
wants to live and breed i write each and all my songs always
have
All along so if you want 'my way' i can do every song in my way
just for you has it occurred to you that i might not be well
i've got a heart that needs a bypass i can tell so here we
Ogether then you and me the best of friend or should i say
colleagues from tonight？ (not unless a pig has taken flight) we
have to work closely and mostly we do we're at opposite ends of
an indu
Without any smoke it's boiler being only fired by hope it is
showbiz
13.If You Commence Before The Start
If you commence before the start where do you begin if you
commence before the start where do you begin if you take off
your shoes and socks throw them up in the air what do you think
your mothe
Ld think will she go spare if you commence before the start
where do you begin if you commence before the start where do you
begin if you go out without a tie nothing under your dress what
do yo
Nk the neigbours would think in their sunday best if you
commence before the start where do you begin if you commence
before the start where do you begin if you come the bathroom
door not having
Ed your hands what do you think your father would think would he
change his plans if you commence before the start where do you
begin
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