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Lyrics of When the Circus Came to Town by Aurelio Voltaire
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Well, the days are long
And the work is hard
When your childhood is spent in the fields
And summer seemed to last million years
One day when I was just a boy
During one of those hot summer swells
The locusts were silenced by the clanging of bells
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And there was the thing for which I longed
A place where I belonged
Where I first held the hand
Of the one I loved
When the circus came to town
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We ate candy-corns and corn dogs
Cotton candy and candy-canes
And we shared a caramel apple by the arcade
And when night fell and the stars rose
And light bedazzled the fair
We rode the Ferris wheel
Up into the air
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And there was the thing for which I longed
A place where I belonged
Where I first held the hand
Of the one I loved
When the circus came to town
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And later, in the funhouse,
Our bodies looked so strange
And the mirrors made our faces seemed deranged
And the snake-man in the freak-show
He got you so alarmed
That you ran and ran and ran
Right into my arms
Oh, oh, oh
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The next morning I got up
Wrapped my clothes up into a ball
And I ran and ran to run away with the fair
But when I arrived, to my surprise,
All the tents and wagons were gone
And they'd stolen all that happiness from the air
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And gone was the thing for which I longed
That place where I belonged
Where I last held the hand of the one I loved
When the circus came
When the circus came
When the circus came to town
Writer(s): Aurelio Voltaire
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Album • 2011 • 9 tracks
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When the Circus Came to Town
Aurelio Voltaire
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