Side Show Blues - Live

[Verse 1]

My landlady treats me like I don't even pay my rent

I gave my car to my mechanic and I ain't seen it since

My phone is always ringin' when I wanna be alone

They try and sell me everything from Heaven to cologne

[Refrain 1]

Everybody's got an offer

That I can't refuse

It's a circus out here, mama

Your baby's got them sideshow blues

[Verse 2]

It's all a big commercial, it's the video of a man

It's a plot to put an end to my attention span

They make up all these issues I never understood

If I thought I could change things I'd run out to Hollywood

[Refrain 2]

But it's hard to kick the door down

When you ain't wearin' no shoes

It's a circus out here, mama

Your baby's got them sideshow blues

[Chorus]

I got them sideshow blues, I want to tame the lions

These center-ring rich kids, they ain't even trying

They go from college to the big time takin' the best positions

While I'm out in this tent with all these freaks and musicians

Out in this smoke-free bar with all you freaks and musicians

Moanin' them sideshow blues

[Verse 3]

Well I try to tell my girlfriend, she's the only one that I've got

But this girl I hardly even know keeps on telling her that she's not

She's got a loaded pistol, waves it all the time

Says "Sometimes you have'ta kill a boy to keep his ass in line"

[Refrain 3]

At least that's the way she sees it

She saw it on the news

It's a circus out here, mama

Your baby's got them sideshow blues

[Verse 4]

People play Satanic records, God you don't know when they'll freak

From a quiet kid to a maniac to a movie of the week

We're killin' over cocaine, dyin' over sex

Bowin' down and prayin' to who'll ever cut the checks

[Refrain 4]

Then I go to church on Sunday, brothers and sisters, let me tall ya I cannot help but sleep in the pew

It's a circus out here, mama

Your baby's got them sideshow blues

It's a circus out here, mama

Your baby's got them sideshow blues

[Outro]

I said, "It's a circus out here, mama"

She said, "I bet you're in that sideshow"