Cirkus

[Verse 1]

Night, her sable dome scattered with diamonds

Fused my dust from a light year

Squeezed me to her breast, sewed me with carbon

Strung my warp across time

Gave me each a horse, sunrise and graveyard

Told me only I was her

Bid me face the east, closed me in questions

Built the sky for my dawn

[Verse 2]

Cleaned my feet of mud, followed the empty

Zebra ride to the Cirkus

Past a painted cage, spoke to the paybox

Glove which wrote on my tongue

Pushed me down a slide to the arena

Megaphonium fanfare

In his cloak of words strode the ringmaster

Bid me join the parade (Ahhh!)

[Verse 3]

"Worship!" cried the clown, "I am a T.V

Making bandsmen go clockwork

See the slinky seal Cirkus policeman

Bareback ladies have fish"

Strongmen by his feet, plate-spinning statesman

Acrobatically juggling

Bids his tamers go quiet the tumblers

Lest the mirror stop turning

[Verse 4]

Elephants forgot, force-fed on stale chalk

Ate the floors of their cages

Strongmen lost their hair, paybox collapsed

And lions sharpened their teeth

Gloves raced round the ring, stallions stampeded

Pandemonium seesaw

I ran for the door, ringmasters shouted

"All the fun of the Cirkus!"

[Instrumental Outro: "Entry of the Chameleons"]