The lights are bright in the circus
The geeks and the freaks all light cigarettes and laugh at your misery
While the white of the curtain closing crushes your heart
Inertia of loneliness tears your flesh apart

It's a long slow slide it's a long slow slide
It's a long slow slide down

Once the neon is gone there's still that golden splinter at your side
His manners are charming but who are you fooling you're still nobody's bride
Bukowski's widow haunts each empty seat on the ferris wheel
As ghoulish lovers collide in a collage of kisses that they steal

It's a long slow slide it's a long slow slide
It's a long slow slide down

And outside the window the circus crackles and lurches with rings of smoke
You laugh halfheartedly at the punchline not realizing they've made you the joke
And inside my heart a war is raging a region still untamed
The worst fear I can imagine is for the mystery to be named

It's a long slow slide it's a long slow slide
It's a long slow slide down

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