That's Showbiz-Reverend Horton Heat

[ti:That's Showbiz] [ar:Reverend Horton Heat] [al:Best Of/20th Century] [by:] [offset:0] [00:02.39]That's Showbiz - Reverend Horton Heat [00:03.42]Written by：Jim Heath/James C. Heath [00:04.53] [00:16.21]You work 689 days in a row [00:18.93]6 shows a day [00:20.19]15 Minute breaks [00:21.94] [00:22.74]Is that showbiz [00:24.01] [00:32.89]No matter how bad you feel [00:34.46] [00:36.43]You could have a fever and the dry heaves [00:38.10]From that left handed cigarette [00:39.58]And shot of old crow you did [00:41.00]Between the first and secon show [00:43.44] [00:45.64]You could have a social disease you caught [00:47.56]From some platinum blonde bombshell in Boise [00:50.54] [00:53.76]You could feel bad because you lost your wallet [00:55.76] [00:56.85]Your dog [00:57.67] [00:58.64]Your best friend [00:59.25]Or even your wife [01:00.65] [01:02.17]And no matter how bad you feel [01:03.83] [01:04.96]When those house lights go down [01:07.08]A smile lights up your face [01:08.94] [01:09.95]Why [01:10.39] [01:11.27]'Cause that's showbiz [01:12.46] [01:21.33]You work practice woodshed [01:23.68]Suffer for your craft [01:25.20] [01:27.22]Do the old soft shoe till your feet bleed [01:30.02] [01:31.10]Sing mammy till your throat swells [01:32.89]All the while smiling though your face hurts [01:35.62] [01:38.56]You do this for ten years [01:39.93]And the day after the back page of [01:41.57]Some local rag says your great [01:43.74] [01:45.14]You see somebody better [01:46.49] [01:47.41]And younger than yourself [01:48.83] [01:50.56]And he closes the show with a gag he stole from you [01:53.80] [01:56.39]And that's showbiz [01:57.62] [02:06.81]You reward [02:07.84] [02:08.73]A fast car you never get to drive [02:10.87] [02:13.08]Ex wives and kids who do interviews with the scandal sheets [02:16.52] [02:20.36]A long cool broad who loves you for your name [02:22.82]And your name only [02:23.87] [02:26.39]This afternoon's pizza backstage of some dive [02:29.20]You've played a hundred times before [02:31.44] [02:32.35]Where rats the size of a loaf of bread climb [02:34.88]The walls and run the pipes [02:36.59] [02:37.85]Where the same drunk crudely delivers [02:39.55]The same insults that you counter [02:41.34]The same way every night [02:43.28] [02:45.26]Except time your delivery is a little different [02:47.83] [02:48.42]And the people laugh [02:49.56] [02:51.91]That's showbiz [02:53.19] [03:01.62]Your up for the part of leading man [03:03.17]In a full length feature film [03:04.94] [03:07.02]And after you read you get a part [03:08.75] [03:11.68]One lousy line in a scene [03:13.29]Where you play the school janitor [03:15.41] [03:19.24]So you say you're line with all the pizzaz [03:21.46]And intensity of a Bogey [03:23.06]Or an Edward G [03:24.76] [03:27.08]And that's showbiz [03:28.39] [03:37.55]So I say to all the little people [03:39.36]Who spit shined and polished [03:40.95]My long and jagged trail to the top [03:43.42] [03:44.82]Thank you [03:45.49] [03:48.35]For without you the little people [03:50.66] [03:52.16]I would not be where I am today [03:53.87] [03:55.30]It is truly you who are [03:56.83] [03:58.35]Showbiz [03:59.60] [04:06.20]Come on [04:06.50]Give youself a round of applause [04:08.45]The little people [04:09.42]Give it up [04:10.03]Yeah [04:10.55] [04:11.85]Please look for me in a new TV mini series drama [04:14.34]Where I portray myself in the story of my life [04:17.06] [04:17.57]Simply entitled [04:18.97]That's Showbiz [04:20.44]Thank you [04:20.93]You've been a wonderful audience [04:21.93]I love you and remember [04:23.32]That's showbiz [04:24.26]Good night