What Circus Is This? Songtext
von R.D. Thomas

Oh, what circus is this?
Where the lions are all out
Taming the kids
To be hungry
How we cry at the tricks
In the mannequin crowd
Oh, what circus is this?

And the ears, they rear up
At the buckling sound
Of the storm in the cup
How we swallow it down
And the actors are stuck
In their tragedy towns
Where the brochures drum up
For a comedy clown


And the pennies, they fly
With a scissoring sound
To a petticoat dress
And a wolf in a crown

Is there magic in this?
In the sleeping sound
Of the beat and the miss
Of a heart held down

There′s a word on the lips
Of the gathering mouth
Don't wait, don′t wait
Don't wait around
For too long
Don't wait around

Oh, what circus is this?
Oh, what circus is this?