Song Description

This song is about an artist who is struggling to get a One Man Show in New York City. It's a song about the struggles of being an artist and building your own name in a city that is so busy it can pass over many truly talented people.

Lyrics

ONE MAN SHOW: (A. Young) Drinking pale ale in an artist bar/ where you think she loves you/ but you can't be sure/ you're on the make in New York town/ waking up early and your making the rounds/ you're stretching and priming just to pay the rent/ in this Big Apple Circus where bags of money are spent/ you're painting all night in the summer's heat/ walk through Tribeca at dawn on wobbly feet/ you got to get a one man show so everybody knows your name/ got to get a one man show/ so everybody knows your game/ your work is much better/ than what you see on most walls/ you'd have a one man show if they/ they had any balls/ the uptown director scared you off with a lisp/ get your slides out of here he said/ with a flap of his wrist/ sipping beer on Rivington Street/ it's a cold hard world/ better stand on your own two feet/ left a message with Mary/ called up Sperone/ they mis-placed my slides/ fucking cold macaroni/ Bridge: got to get a one man show/ got to get a one man show/ I do/ got to get a one man show/ got to get a one man show/ I do/ you're on the make in New York town/ waking up early and making the rounds/ collectors ain't buying/ but you're still trying/ your new work is going to be a breakthrough/ you got to get a one man show so everybody knows your name/ got to get a one man show/ so everybody knows your game/ you got to get a one man show so everybody knows your game/ in paragraphs of their brilliant prose/ the art writers will claim your fame/