Show People

Step up, kid
Sign a name right here
There's pride to take in being a volunteer
It's not gonna be easy
But we're all of us equal
If you give it your all you can be show people

Can you stand on your head?
Can you land on a dime?
Can you find a thousand different places to say the same line?
Can you show a crowded room the good and the evil?
Do the same when it's empty
You can be show people

Can you sleep while you're sitting?
Make a pillow from your shoes
Fix an engine with duct tape
Use a string for a fuse
Can you fly like Icarus?
Land like Evel Knievel?
He'll show you how it's done
We are show people

They call us traveling players
Fools and troubadours
We did turns for the king
And they still call us odd!
Sometimes we've been icons
In the Plague years illegal
But we believed in our cause
'Cause we are show people

And I know you didn't want
The hand that you were dealt
Let me guess that you were scorned
For just being yourself
And you knew it in your heart
That you had something to say
And you were willing to work on it
Through the nights and through the days

On the skills you knew you'd need
To say exactly what you mean
They weren't perfect when you started
But you were hungry and you were lean
To be the truest version of yourself
Pass through the eye of the needle

Step right up
And show 'em what you got
Show people
Show people
Show people
Show people
Don't worry Kate (Show people)
You're gonna show people (Show people)
Six nights a week (Show people)
You're gonna show people (Show people)
Some day I promise (Show people)
You're gonna show people (Show people)
With a matinee on Saturdays (Show people)
You're gonna show people (Show people)

You'll probably be disappointed
You'll often be broken
But at airports and at parties
You're gonna smell your own

You're more likely to be
John Otway than The Beatles
But Otway's still on tour
Hats off to the show people