The Barry Williams Show Lyrics

Lyric discussion by WirelessBrain 

Cover art for The Barry Williams Show lyrics by Peter Gabriel

It seems to be a commentary on exploiting people's troubles and conflicts on popular shows like Jerry Springer. In the end,which can be confirmed by the video, Barry has an obsessed fan who plots to murder him where it talks about the girl with no scruples who conceived this unbelievable plot. It then goes on to say "no man is an island" is a quote from MEDITATION XVII by John Donne, which is about how when a man dies, everyone is affected by it. So it seems the fan succeeded with her plot and murdered Barry, and now everyone is affected by the loss. If he was actually killed, or if his spot was just taken - who knows.