Sideshow Blues - Yonder Mountain String Band

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

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 know keeps on telling her she’s not

She’s got a loaded pistol, she waves it all the time

Says «Sometimes 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

When 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, step right up