Comments for "Peter Gabriel - The Barry Williams Show" Video at VideoSift.com

By my15minutes

my15minutes (http://www.videosift.com/member/my15minutes) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:16:19 -0700

let's go.

one man at the window, one girl at the bar.
saw that look of recognition when they know just who you are.
seen you on the tv. i seen you on that show.
you make the people crazy, and then you let them go.

before the show we calm them. we sympathize. we care.
and the hostile folk we keep apart 'til the red light says "on air".
did you see our leather lovers all tied up to the chair?
did you catch those child molesters? no one else goes there.

what a show. the barry williams show, what a show.
dysfunctional excess is all it took for my success.
the greater pain that they endure, the more you know the show will score.
it's showtime.

got the reputation of a surgeon 'cuz they cannot feel the cut.
it looks so very simple but it really is an art.
they call our studio 'the hospital', making money from the sick.
we let people be themselves. there is no other trick.

'my lover stole my girlfriend', 'i keep beating up my ex'
'i want to kill my neighbor', 'my daughter's selling sex'
'my s/m lover hurt me', 'my girl became a man'
'i love my daughter's rapist', 'my life's gone down the pan'

what a show, the barry williams show.
dysfunctional excess is all it took for my success.
and when the punches start to fly?
the ratings always read so high.

the best tv you've ever seen,
where people say the things that they really mean.
i hear my name, i hear them roar.
for the one more time i take the floor.

just one more barry williams show.
we're gonna take you where you want to go.

showtime.

that girl has got no scruples, not a wrinkle on her face.
you would not believe the plot she conceived,
so they let her take my place.

well, no man is an island. no man is a sea.
but this display of emotion is all but drowning me.
what a show.

By my15minutes

my15minutes (http://www.videosift.com/member/my15minutes) — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 08:45:01 -0700

figured the eia tag was iffy and obscured, so i didn't include it.
but i heard the tune long before the video came out, and thought the lyrics had a slightly different ending in mind.
sounded to me like barry finds out he's finally being replaced, by some backstabbing bimbo cohost.
so on his last show, he kills her, on air. what a show.

By siftbot

siftbot (http://siftbot.videosift.com) — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:53:02 -0700

Moving this video to my15minutes's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

By eric3579

eric3579 (http://eric3579.videosift.com) — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:31:12 -0700

I so dig this song. Thanks for posting.

By eric3579

eric3579 (http://eric3579.videosift.com) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:02:11 -0800

Check out the live version. It's the bomb.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_fnUc632wo