If ever you're down with the blues For a price, we will thrill and amuse If ever there's doom and there's gloom We're the merriest crowd you could choose Boys and girls and everyone else Welcome to the circus Boys and girls and everyone else Welcome to the circus Bit my tongue, yes I set it on fire Watched it burn, as you walked away All alone on this merry-go-round So dizzy from spinning around You threw me on to a tightrope But this isn't a balancing act (if you put me there, I will fall) The butterflies flutter by Hurl myself through the air As they say goodbye (as they say goodbye) And here I lie And here I lie The melody is so out of tune But still I try to pull in the crowd My demise is now the encore Eulogize me while I'm alive Holding on to a fly bar But you didn't give me your hand (but you didn't, yeah you didn't, give me your hand) The butterflies flutter by (flutter by) Hurl myself through the air As they say goodbye (as they say goodbye) And here I lie And here I lie And here I lie And here I lie And here I lie And here I lie And here I lie