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Three Dog Night - The Show Must Go On Meaning

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Album cover for The Show Must Go On album cover

Song Released: 1974


The Show Must Go On Lyrics

Baby, although I chose this lonely life
It seems it's stranglin' me now
All the wild men, big cigars, gigantic cars
They're all laughin' at the lie

Oh, I've been used Ooo-oo-oo-oo
I've been a fool Oh, what a fool
I broke all the rules Oh,...

  1. anonymous
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    May 8th 2018 !⃝

    This song very well fits the events of the Jonestown Massacre if you listen deeply to the lyrics.

  2. anonymous
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    Feb 14th 2015 !⃝

    A great old song that the talented Leo Sayer wrote and performed dressed as a clown to express himself through the song how he felt at times in the entertaiment buisness, that the ''Three Dog Night'' band made the song much more popular but also changed a couple of words from ''the show must not go on'' by Leo Sayer, that way as a clown anymore for the entertainment buisness to ''the show must go on'' by the three dog night's way with the same trappings that came along in the buisness.


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