The Big Trapeze

Back when it started. Under the the tent.

Walking the tightrope. Down to the end

All that tumbling and turning. Life in a cabaret

All those stars that we were touching. Just places to run away



Don’t you wanna take that big trapeze

Tear it down and throw it in the sea

Ain’t kinda beautiful watching it go

Did you learn to balance on a wire

Running through those circles made of fire

How you can be elegant, while fighting for air



Don't you know I sailed into the surf

I sailed until I fell right off the Earth

Always me and Icarus, with nothing to show

But I know every rivet bow to stern

Tear it down and let that mother burn

Ain’t it kinda beautiful watching it go