Work The Room - Barry Manilow

Open a door

On the seventeenth floor

Secretary sends me through

Walkin’ right in

With a big time grin

But I’m shakin’ in my shoes

Suit One shakes my hand

But it takes him a beat to recall my name

Gotta move it along

Gotta play somethin’ strong

Gotta show ‘em why I came

Work the room

Work the room, baby

Nobody here wants to know you

But tomorrow they’ll be talkin’ about you

Work the room

Startin’ in sweet

With a rockin’ beat

Show ‘em I can really ride

Not about fluff

Get to serious stuff

Here’s my softer side

Suit Two frowns

Is it bringin’ him down?

Or does it mean he’s in the groove?

Back to the beat

Activatin’ their feet

See the Pradas start to move

Work the room

They’re movin’

Oh baby

Watch them beginnin’ to wonder

You can bet tomorrow

They’ll have serious hunger

Work the room

Go one step up

Or all the way back

Take the turns

Or jump the track

Rise an inch – or fall for a mile

All the time remember to smile

Stoppin’ the show

But they don’t say go

Suddenly smiles all ‘round

Man oh man

We’re shakin’ hands

Telling me they like my sound

Big Suit smilin’ at me

Talkin’ about sales and fame

Everybody’s talkin’ to me

Makin’ it like I got it

Dammit now they know my name!

Work the room

They want me

I got it!

You went in an unsung zero

You’re comin’ out a musical hero

Never gonna have to work the room again!