Empty spaces, what are we living for? Abandoned places, I guess we know the score, on and on Does anybody know what we are looking for? Another hero, another mindless crime Behind the curtain, in the pantomime Hold the line Does anybody want to take it anymore? The show must go on The show must go on, yeah Inside my heart is breaking My makeup may be flaking But my smile, still, stays on Whatever happens, I'll leave it all to chance Another heartache, another failed romance, on and on Does anybody know what we are living for? I guess I'm learning I must be warmer now I'll soon be turning, round the corner now Outside the dawn is breaking But inside in the dark I'm aching to be free The show must go on The show must go on Inside my heart is breaking My makeup may be flaking But my smile, still, stays on My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies Fairy tales of yesterday, grow but never die I can fly, my friends The show must go on The show must go on I'll face it with a grin I'm never giving in On with the show I'll top the bill I'll overkill I have to find the will to carry on On with the show Show Show must go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, go on

There's only two types of people in the world The ones that entertain, and the ones that observe Well, baby, I'm a put-on-a-show kind of girl Don't like the back seat, gotta be first (oh-oh) I'm like the ring leader, I call the shots (call the shots) I'm like a firecracker, I make it hot When I put on a show I feel the adrenaline moving through my veins Spotlight on me and I'm ready to break I'm like a performer, the dance floor is my stage Better be ready, hope that you feel the same All eyes on me in the center of the ring just like a circus When I crack that whip everybody gon' trip just like a circus Don't stand there watching me, follow me, show me what you can do Everybody let go, we can make a dance floor just like a circus There's only two types of guys out there Ones that can hang with me and ones that are scared So, baby, I hope that you came prepared I run a tight ship, so beware I'm like the ring leader, I call the shots (call the shots) I'm like a firecracker, I make it hot When I put on a show I feel the adrenaline moving through my veins Spotlight on me and I'm ready to break I'm like a performer, the dance floor is my stage Better be ready, hope that you feel the same All eyes on me in the center of the ring just like a circus When I crack that whip everybody gon' trip just like a circus Don't stand there watching me, follow me, show me what you can do Everybody let go, we can make a dance floor just like a circus Let's go Let me see what you can do I'm runnin' this (like-like-like-like a circus) Yeah, like a what? (Like-like-like-like a circus) All eyes on me in the center of the ring just like a circus When I crack that whip everybody gon' trip just like a circus Don't stand there watching me, follow me, show me what you can do Everybody let go, we can make a dance floor just like a circus All eyes on me in the center of the ring just like a circus When I crack that whip everybody gon' trip just like a circus Don't stand there watching me, follow me, show me what you can do Everybody let go, we can make a dance floor just like a circus

I dance around this empty house Tear us down Throw you out Screaming down the halls Spinning all around and now we fall Pictures framing up the past Your taunting smirk behind the glass This museum full of ash Once a tickle Now a rash This used to be a funhouse But now it's full of evil clowns It's time to start the countdown I'm gonna burn it down down down I'm gonna burn it down Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, fun Echoes knocking on locked doors All the laughter from before I'd rather live out on the street Than in this haunted memory I've called the movers Called the maids We'll try to exorcise this place Drag my mattress to the yard Crumble tumble house of cards This used to be a fun house But now it's full of evil clowns It's time to start the countdown I'm gonna burn it down down down This used to be a fun house But now it's full of evil clowns It's time to start the countdown I'm gonna burn it down down down I'm gonna burn it down Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, fun Oh, I'm crawling through the doggy door My key don't fit my lock no more I'll change the drapes I'll break the plates I'll find a new place Burn this fucker down Do do do do dodo do Do do do do dodo do Do do do do dodo do Do do do do da da da da Do do do do dodo do Do do do do dodo do Do do do do dodo do Do do do do dodo doo This used to be a fun house But now it's full of evil clowns It's time to start the countdown I'm gonna burn it down down down This used to be a fun house But now it's full of evil clowns It's time to start the countdown I'm gonna burn it down down down I'm gonna burn it down

Woah Ladies and gents This is the moment you've waited for (Woah) You've been searching in the dark Your sweat soaking through the floor (Woah) And buried in your bones There's an ache that you can't ignore Taking your breath Stealing your mind And all that was real is left behind Don't fight it, it's coming for you, running at ya It's only this moment Don't care what comes after Your fever dream Can't you see it getting closer? Just surrender 'cause you feel the feeling taking over It's fire, it's freedom It's flooding open It's the preacher in the pulpit and your blind devotion There's something breaking at the brick of every wall It's holding all that you know So tell me, do you wanna go? Where it's covered in all the colored lights Where the runaways are running the night Impossible comes true It's taking over you (Oh, this is the greatest show) We light it up, we won't come down And the sun can't stop us now Watching it come true It's taking over you (Oh, this is the greatest show) Colossal we come These renegades in the ring (Woah) Where the lost get found And we crown 'em the circus kings Don't fight it, it's coming for you, running at ya It's only this moment Don't care what comes after It's blinding, outshining anything that you know Just surrender 'cause you're calling and you wanna go Where it's covered in all the colored lights Where the runaways are running the night Impossible comes true Intoxicating you (Oh, this is the greatest show) We light it up We won't come down And the sun can't stop us now Watching it come true It's taking over you (Oh, this is the greatest show) Where it's covered in all the colored lights Where the runaways are running the night Impossible comes true It's taking over you (Oh, this is the greatest show) We light it up We won't come down And the walls can't stop us now Watching it come true It's taking over you

Baby, although I chose this lonely life It seems it's strangling me now All the wild men, big cigars, gigantic cars They're all laughing at me now Oh, I've been used (ooh-ooh) I've been a fool, oh, what a fool I broke all the rules, oh yeah But I must let the show go on Baby, there's an enormous crowd of people They're all after my blood I wish maybe they'd tear down the walls of this theater Let me out, let me out Oh, I'm so blind, oh, I'm blind I wasted time, wasted, wasted, wasted time Walking on a wire, oh, high wire But I must let the show go on Oh, I'm so blind, oh, I'm blind I wasted time, wasted, wasted all too much time Walking on a wire, oh, high wire But I must let the show go on Baby, I wish you'd help me escape Help me get away Leave me outside my address Far away from this masquerade 'Cause I've been blind, oh, so blind I wasted time, wasted, wasted all too much time Walking on a wire, high wire But I must let the show go I must let the show go I must let the show go on

The singer cries for people's lies He will sing for the day to bring him night The circus burns in carnival flame And for a while you won't know my name at all But sing and dance and love for pennies and gold The juggling clown smiles to me And every frown we agree is glad The nighttime comes to bring the bums From Bowery heat to crimson streets of wine But magic lands will never touch our sands Your children smile in single file They learn mistakes that others make They see although they cannot know The needs they'll need to have their greed grow wild But dance and sing, for others bring the shame And for a while you won't know my name

We put up our tent on a dark Green knoll, outside of town by The train tracks and a seagull dump Topping the bill was Horse Face Ethel And her 'Marvellous Pigs In Satin' We pounded our stakes in the ground All powder brown And the branches spread like scary Fingers reaching We were in a pasture outside Kankakee And One Eyed Myra, the queen of The galley who trained the Ostrich and the camels She looked at me squinty with her One good eye in a Roy Orbison T-shirt as she bottle fed An orangutan named Tripod And then there was Yodeling Elaine the Queen of the air who wore a Dollar sign medallion and she Had a tiny bubble of spittle Around her nostril and a Little rusty tear, for she had Lassoed and lost another Tipsy sailor And over in The burnt yellow tent By the frozen tractor, the Music was like electric sugar And Zuzu Bolin played 'Stavin' Chain' and Mighty Tiny on the saw and he Threw his head back with a Mouth full of gold teeth And they played 'Lopsided heart' And 'Moon over Dog Street' And by the time they played "Moanin Low" I was soakin' wet and wild eyed And Doctor Bliss slipped me a Preparation and I fell asleep with 'Livery Stable Blues' in my ear And me and Molley Hoey drank Pruno and Koolaid and she had a Tattoo gun made out of a cassette Motor and a guitar string and She soaked a hanky in 3 Roses And rubbed it on the spot And drew a rickety heart and A bent arrow and it hurt like hell And Funeral Wells spun Poodle Murphy on the target As he threw his hardware, Only once in Sheboygan did he miss At a matinee on Diamond Pier and She'd never let him forget it They were doing two shows and she Had a high fever and he took Off a piece of her ear and Tip Little told her she should Leave the bum But Poodle said, "He fetched me Last time I run." But I'd like to hammer this ring into a bullet And I wish I had some whiskey and a gun My dear And I wish I had some whiskey and a gun My dear