The Heavy Entertainment Show – English Lyrics

• By: Robbie Williams
• Album: The Heavy Entertainment Show

Lyrics & Translation

[English]

Good evening children of cultural abandon

You searched for a saviour, well here I am

And all the best ones are dying off so quickly

While I'm still here, enjoy me while you can

Welcome to the Heavy Entertainment Show

The charisma's non-negotiable

Welcome to the Heavy Entertainment Show

I'm about to strip and you're my pole

We are so glorious

Why not leave your job and come on tour with us?

Before I drop dead and die

Good evening lovers of quality entertainment

Good evening to the others that don't know hit

Even you will leave here with a t-shirt and a programme

Got a house in LA, I'm still paying for it...

Welcome to the Heavy Entertainment Show

It's just the tip but no one will know

Welcome to the Heavy Entertainment Show

All the girls, the boys go

You are magnificent

Maybe come on stage and be a part of it

I said maybe, baby, baby ohhh

Come leave the life you're living

Show me the light you're giving

I'll give it all then a little bit more, oh-oh-woah

He would sell his children

For a hit in Belgium

God knows what he's done

For a number one

Welcome to the Heavy Entertainment Show

Where the more you see, the less you know

Welcome to the Heavy Entertainment Show

Where Eminem meets Barry Manilow

I am notorious

For making all the crowd sing the chorious

I just made up that word

Come love the life I'm living

Bathe in the light I'm giving

He'll give it all then a little bit more

Welcome to the Heavy Entertainment Show

I'm a volcano that's about to blow

Welcome to the Heavy Entertainment Show

This is how I'd like to say "Hello"

Key Grammar Structures

• You searched for a saviour, well here I am

  ➔ Past Perfect, Coordinating Conjunction

  ➔ The phrase "You searched" uses the Past Perfect to indicate an action completed *before* another point in the past (my arrival). "Well" acts as a coordinating conjunction, linking the two clauses.

• While I'm still here, enjoy me while you can

  ➔ Subordinate Clause, Present Continuous, Imperative

  ➔ "While I'm still here" is a subordinate clause introduced by "while", modifying the main clause. "I'm still here" uses the present continuous to emphasize the ongoing state. "Enjoy me" is an imperative verb.

• Got a house in LA, I'm still paying for it...

  ➔ Ellipsis, Present Continuous

  ➔ The sentence uses ellipsis, omitting the verb "have". The full sentence would be "I have got a house..." "I'm still paying for it" uses the present continuous to describe an ongoing action.

• He would sell his children for a hit in Belgium

  ➔ Conditional Mood (Second Conditional)

  ➔ This is a second conditional sentence, expressing an unlikely or hypothetical situation. The structure is "would + base verb" in the main clause and "past simple" in the if-clause (implied here).

• Where the more you see, the less you know

  ➔ Correlative Conjunctions, Comparative Adverbs

  ➔ This sentence uses the correlative conjunctions "the more...the less..." to show a proportional relationship. "More" and "less" are comparative adverbs modifying "you see" and "you know" respectively.