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