Those Show Biz Shoes

(album: Artificial Paradise - 1973)

My girl's got some solution
That's excellent for removing
All the tuna and the oil
And though she laughs at the Constitution
At least she'd end up
Owning up to being just my goil

The theater is raging, destroy it
Ignorance is threatening, ignore it
For trees maybe a breeze

DC hauler baby, blow the whistle mama
Can't we get this
Aluminum woman off the ground
First class, coach, executive service
Now are the cakes and tarts
A-running freely all around

The citizen is crumbling, destroy him
Ignorance is threatening, ignore it
For trees, maybe a breeze
For trees, maybe a breeze

People coming on about the way I greet the dawn
And how I can often seem overly rehearsed
Talking trash-drivel-reason-beams down on me
Matching me up against King James, The First

And if only for an instant
Amid the hurly burly and rapid jive
I could look up at something I once thought I believed in
And thank it for the feeling of sometimes being alive

I could thank it for those show
I could thank it for those show
I could thank it for those show
I could thank it for those show
Those show biz shoes

Thank you for my show biz shoes
Thank you for my show biz shoes
Thank you for my show biz shoes
Thank you for my show biz shoes

Gon' get to heaven in my show biz shoes
Walking over heaven in my show biz shoes
If there's a heaven then there's show biz shoes
A million dollars worth of show biz shoes

Thank you for my show biz shoes
I got respect for my show biz shoes
Don't you step on my blue suede show biz shoes
I'll never give away my show biz shoes

Bright lights, big city in my show biz shoes
Impress the women with my show biz shoes
Going dancing in my show biz shoes
Whoa, I love my show biz shoes

I'm going walking in my show biz shoes
I got respect for my show biz shoes
Polishing my show biz shoes
A million dollars worth of show biz shoes
Getting gold records in my show biz shoes