Live 23 Jul 2013 version
[Spoken intro:] (holding a request sign for "Seaside Bar Song" on one side and "TV Movie" on the other) This, this, no not this. This has never been played. Partly because it's ridiculous. It's completely ridiculous. It is a very serious song. And I don't know how we play it. I kinda remember how it goes, I think it's in the key of D. (singing:) I woke up last night... Hey guys are you ready to work? Where are you? (singing:) it's a one two three you take the money, it's as easy as A... It's the hardest part. (singing:) They're gonna make... Alright? Alright, let's see if we got it right. Let's try ???. (singing:) Woke up last night shaking from a dream... No, that key ???. It's the key we're ???. Professor are you ready? Professor's very important on this.
Band, one, a two, a one two three
[Spoken:] Tune the Professor down. He's not that important. Turn him down man. He sounds good though. Alright.
I woke up last night shaking from a dream, ─ slap! ─ in that dream I died
My wife rolled over and told me my life would be immortalized
Not in a major motion pictures, or great American novel, you see
They're gonna make a TV movie out of me
Well it's a one two three you take the money
It's as easy as A B C
They're gonna make a TV movie out of me
Well they can change my name or they can leave it, they can change my story too
Or they can make me black or Chinese and do things that I never do
They're gonna give my life a whole new ending and put me in prime time first-run
When it's over, what I did there will be what I done
Now I don't want my name in a history book
Nobody's ever gonna see
They're gonna make a TV movie out of me
Chorus!
Well it's a one two three you take the money
As easy as A B C
They're gonna make, huh!
Come on Jake, give me a solo!
[Saxophone solo]
Well I'm a shoe-in for a sponsor, Goodyear blimp and radial wheels
Somebody had a meeting somewhere, somehow somebody made a deal
Well I was one of them kinds of stories everybody liked to see
They're gonna make a TV movie out of me
Well I don't want no inscription on my gravestone
No long soliloquy
They're gonna make a TV movie out of me
Chorus!
Well it's a one two three you take the money
It's as easy as A B C
They're gonna make a TV movie out of me
Repeat that!
I said they're gonna make a TV movie out of me
Half time!
I said they're gonna make a TV movie out of me
[Spoken outro:] You heard it first, you heard it last.
The above lyrics are for the live 23 Jul 2013 performance of TV MOVIE at Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, during the Wrecking Ball Tour. The song was played in its full-band studio arrangement.
List of available versions of TV MOVIE on this website:
TV MOVIE [Official studio version]