Showbusiness Lyrics - The Philosopher's Stone - Van Morrison

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 

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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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