Circus Song

“It’s been like a circus in her head.
And she sighs when she hears the lions roar.
She can stare through the cages ‘til the colors turn red,
But she just wishes it would all go away.

Of all the things she thought she’d be,
It wasn’t a falling tear factory.
The days she has dreamed of are trickling by…
She tries to find definition in the sky.
And she’d walk so far to see
A swinging lady on a tall trapeze.
And she’d smile at all the movements and colors,
turn and slowly leave the place behind.

She wonders where her feet are now.
She wonders who’d stand with her now.

The beauty of this sad story,
Is that this girl is really me.
And I remembered all the things he said,
How he wiped away the circus in my head.
And I walked so far to see,
A swinging lady on a tall trapeze.
And I smiled at all the movements and colors,
Turned and slowly left that place behind.”

-Circus Song, Waterdeep