Van morrison showbusiness lyrics

Say you wanna be in showbusiness 

See the man on the TV with a phoney smile

Bring you up, bring you down

He can turn your head around

In showbusiness, showbusiness 

See the man on a silver screen 

With the phoney smile

Bring you up, bring you down

He can turn your head around

Showbusiness, showbusiness 



Have a hit, maybe two

Make mincemeat out of you

Come back in two years time

Lay your heart right on the line 

In showbusiness, showbusiness

Showbusiness, showbusiness 



Where's the next one, where's the next one

Where's the next one

Oh, baby just like the last one 

Like the last one 



Say you wanna be in showbusiness 

See the man in the suit 

With the phoney smile

He can laugh, he can cry 

He can make you reach the sky,

He can say anything you wanna hear 

Be anything you wanna be

You can say anything you want to hear 

Be anything you want him to be

Make you leave your family 

In showbusiness, in showbusiness 



Take it to the bridge 

And the next one, and the next one

And the next one

How can you do it like the last one 

Now do it just like the last one, please

Like the last one, like the last one just like the last one 



Say you wanna be in showbusiness 

Have a pretty face and a pretty smile

I'm thinking

Make you laugh and they can make you cry 

But they can't wait, wipe the tear drops from your eye

In showbusiness, showbusiness 



Say you wanna be in showbusiness

See the rock star up on the stage 

Right now

Behind them drugs, behind them booze 

Behind them people he can use

Behind them people usin' them

Behind them people usin' us

And the next one, and the next one

And the next one

Can you make it, just like the last one

Oh, you make it just like the last one

Like the last one

Just like the last one 



Say you wanna be in showbusiness

All the world is a stage

Everybody must play their part,

I've been so long in showbusiness

I feel right now just like I got myself just started

Forget the junk, forget the jive

I just want to stay alive

In showbusiness, in showbusiness 



Take it to the bridge

And the next one, and the next one

And the next one

Oh, just like the last one, just like the last one

Like the last one 



They can rob you with a fountain pen

But you got to find some honest men

They can make you leave your home

Where you go to waste and roam

Control your fate, control your life

They can make you leave your wife

It's showbusiness, it's showbusiness 



Take it to the bridge

And the next one, and the next one

And the next one

Oh, just like the last one, can you make it

Like the last one

Can you give it one more time

Like the last one

Can you put it out, like the last one

Showbusiness, it's showbusiness

It's showbusiness, showbusiness

It's showbusiness, showbusiness 



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