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[00:02.91]Showtime
[00:04.06]Hang a guitar on my shoulder
[00:06.26]Check the vacant drooling faces 'round the room
[00:11.55]Another heartbreak battle
[00:13.61]And I'm only getting older
[00:15.77]Jesus, help me when I say, "I'll give it all up pretty soon"
[00:21.02]Daytime
[00:22.79]Time to fight the morning's headache
[00:25.13]Gulp an aspirin, bang together one more song
[00:30.42]Inspiration cauterised
[00:32.57]By years of useless heartache
[00:34.89]Every shallow night's reaction sounding twisted up and wrong
[00:39.81]These last years
[00:44.51]Years gone down to the showtime
[00:49.12]Showtime
[00:51.52]Try to catch the spark
[00:53.10]That got me hooked so many years ago and died
[00:58.59]Second-rate musicians
[01:00.66]Feeding infantile illusions
[01:02.86]Reading music magazines to keep the habit satisfied
[01:08.04]Pitching
[01:09.81]To some demographic average
[01:12.17]What the hell's he staying home for, I don't see him here tonight
[01:17.31]Thirteen years and over
[01:19.22]Tuned to radio between the hours
[01:21.94]Of six and seven-thirty, AM programmer's delight
[01:26.74]These last years
[01:31.41]Years gone down to the showtime
[01:36.55]I never knew it could be so misleading
[01:40.88]Waiting for the final song to end
[01:45.83]In this dirty nightclub
[01:47.46]All the souls are bleeding
[01:50.25]Reaching for the big decision
[01:52.69]Disco floor or television
[01:54.92]Time and time again
[01:57.86]You hear their so-called friends
[01:59.57]The smug de-facto critics in their movie backdrop cities
[02:03.95]Sneering, sit down and listen
[02:06.06]Life's a lonely escalator
[02:08.40]It's a fool who doesn't know he has to leap off at the end
[02:13.27]Well, they were never at the guesthouse
[02:15.34]With the ghost of Jimmy Rodgers
[02:17.70]Watching Townsville sugar sunsets back in 1959
[02:22.67]And they'll all be gone when the end is come
[02:25.05]And I'm kneeling in the backroom
[02:26.92]Crying, "Lord I'm just a trouper, let me play it one more time"
[02:32.40]These last years
[02:37.15]Years gone down to the showtime
[02:41.81]These last years
[02:46.67]Years gone down to the showtime
[02:51.31]These last years
[02:56.06]Years gone down to the showtime
[03:00.98]Oh, the years
[03:05.19]All the years gone down to the showtime
[03:10.37]These last years
[03:15.00]Years gone down to the showtime
[03:19.73]Oh, the last years
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[03:29.11]These last years
[03:32.41]Oh, the years
[03:34.28]Years gone down to the showtime
[03:38.90]These last years
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