Let's Get The Show On The Road
--words and music by Michael Stanley

from "Friends & Legends", 1973, MCA Records


Let's get the show on the road, babe
  At the curtain, take a bow
New Haven, just a rendezvous to take you to
  a lover--who was then, but never now
Susan played the lady
  who called the players' songs
Just a figurine of stagehand reveries
  Guess up-and-coming can't be that wrong...

Let's get the show on the road, babe
  The spotlights on the stage
Somehow it seems I've heard these words before
  Did you forget to turn the page?
And remember what they told you
  about how 'the show goes on'
How can you come back, if you've never gone away?
  How can you sing without a song...

     And today's for sale
     And it's all you can afford
     And by your own admission
     The whole thing's got you bored
     And the Lord uses the good ones
     The bad ones use the Lord...

Let's get the show on the road, babe
  Won't you take a look around
One thing to remember
  when you're climbing to the top
You'd better know the way back down...
  I can't believe you'd really stumble
But then, I always knew you'd fall
  It seems so easy, to say 'I knew you' when
I'd rather it was not at all

     And today's for sale
     And it's all you can afford
     And by your own admission
     The whole thing's got you bored
     And the Lord uses the good ones
     The bad ones use the Lord...