Sideshow Blues

My landlady treats me like I don't pay my rent
 Gave my car to my mechanic, I ain't seen it since
 My phone is always ringing, when I want to be alone
 They try and sell me everything from heaven to cologne
 Everybody's got an offer I can't refuse
 It's a circus out here mama
 Your baby's got the sideshow blues
 It's all a big commercial; It's a 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
 But it's hard to kick the door down wearing seven dollar shoes
 It's a circus out here mama
 Your baby's got the sideshow blues
 I've got them sideshow blues
 I want to tame the lions
 These center ring rich kids ain't even trying
 From college to the big top they take the best positions
 While I'm out in this tent with these freaks and musicians
 While I'm out in this tent with these freaks and musicians
 I'm moaning them sideshow blues
 I try to tell my girlfriend she's the only one that I've got
 This chick I hardly knows keeps on telling her she's not
 She got a loaded pistol, she waves it all the time
 Says some times you gotta kill a boy to keep his ass in line
 Well that's the way she sees it, she says she saw it on the news
 It's a circus out here mama
 Your baby's got the sideshow blues
 See people play satanic records and you don't know when they'll freak
 From quiet kid to maniac to movie of the week
 We're killing over cocaine, dying over sex
 We're bowing down and praying to who'll ever cuts the check
 Then I go to church on Sunday, I can't help sleep in the pews (that's what I do)
 It's a circus out here mama
 Your baby's got the sideshow blues
 It's a circus out here mama
 Your baby's got the sideshow blues
 It's a circus out here mama
 Your baby's got the sideshow blues
 It's a circus people
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