Lyric Twelve Year Circus

it was a day like any other
my son he turned to me and said
father wherever did we go so wrong
i thought it over for a minute and said

son for twelve years
there was a circus

sometimes i want to dream my life away
and other times it all seems wrong
still other days i want to throw my life away
that s when i know i don t belong

now when i m down some people ask me
just when and where my luck did change
i smile and say the eighties broke my spirit
cause when the circus came to town
i was in it s way

this charade is not for me
just put aside what i think it means to me
just put aside my eccentricities
there s nothing for me in this one horse town
at least until the circus came around