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 locus was silenced by the playing of bells
And there was the thing for which I longed
A place where I belonged
Where I first held the hand of the one I love
When the circus came to town
We ate candy-cones and corndogs
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
And there was the thing for which I longed
A place where I belonged
Where I first held the hand of the one I love
When the circus came to town
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
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
And gone was the thing for which I longed
That place where I belonged
Where I last held the hand of the one I love
When the circus came
When the circus came
When the circus came to town
Perhaps ths reason you cried was because in a way, you are still mourning something that happened when you were a child or teenager. This song gives a sense of mourning.
The ability of this album to go from comedic to THIS is a real testament to how creativity can pop up in different ways. Major props for this, not a whole lot of songs can hit me where it hurts and this really did it.
You know, fun and laughter are the first things that came to mind when I read the word "Circus" in the song title. Instead, I got a surprise attack from Voltaire, hitting me hard with the Feels. Hard enough to instantly make this one of my Favorite songs of all time. Thanks, Voltaire. I really needed that. Now, if you excuse me, I have to go, someone must be peeling onions around here.