Freakshow - David Knopfler

Took you on a roller-coaster

Now you’re riding to the wall of death

Only doing what you’re supposed to

Tell me baby what will you do next?

Welcome to the freakshow

Who’s that freakin'?

Well what do you know

You only reap the love you sow

D’you only beat up on the ones you love?

Welcome to the freakshow babe

Another debt left unpaid

Finger pointin' 'cause you feel afraid

Think you’re lying on the bed you made

Heard you screaming on the roller coaster

Dragged you bleeding from the wall of death

Took your picture in a hall of mirrors

Who broke your spirit?

Now there’s no one left

Tell me baby, no I’d like to know

Do you still beat up on the ones you love?

No really, I’d like to know

Hello hello — welcome to the freakshow

Welcome to the freakshow babe

You only reap the love you sow

You get to share the front row

When that corpse you thought you’d buried

He starts to grow

Maybe there’s a light down here

Baby it became so clear

Listen, it’s comin' closer

You listen and you learn to hear

I feel the same pain baby

Oh yeah the boy’s insane

Auf weidersehen babe

Still riding the ghost train

Bought your ticket on the wall of death

I’m still standing though darkness reigns

I’m still fightin' just to catch my breath

Still standing — still laughing

Learning to survive

Welcome to the freakshow

Still frightened just to feel alive?

Welcome to the freakshow

You only reap the love you sow

I believe this time you know

That all you need’s another miracle

And now you’re just another echo

Another cry from limbo

Just one more freak I used to know