Secret Circus

I left my friends for the strangers of the town

Between dust and elephants, there can be no common

Ground

Time obscures their dreary tongues

Makes a ghost of everyone

Call them what they are

A million shadows

They all get pregnant or diseased

I didn't send for you when I was meant to

Lost a friend in you, but then I meant to

And only my scars, only my scars miss you now

You told me that no matter where I went would be a

Prison

That the world is harsh, I know it is but,

It only hurts, it only hurts if you say "ow"

The things that you don't think about don't exist

The day I left there was a lightening strike

Left a border of flames

Tasted carbon on the night

Felt the shame of your name

And everybody knew the secret circus was a fairytale

But I thought I saw a big top in the darkness

Thought I heard a whiplash split the sky

Should've heard the helicopter screaming

Everybody thought that they were gleaming

Everything was hot, the ground was steaming

Voices calling out across the water

Firemen and TV news reporters

Stepping on their video recorders

Oh but cameras are liars

I saw bears and there were tigers

And I heard brass in the hiss of the propeller sound

And there were shuffles in the desert as the players

Gather round

And there were faces in the vapours, there were

Acrobats and clowns

You always told me that I tend to overdramatise

But I have seen these things with my very own eyes

And then they faded into ether

And it's no surprise

I guess I didn't hear the call for when the curtain

Died

Because the things you set on fire don't exist