What Circus Is This?

What Circus Is This ?

What circus is this
Where the lions are all out
Taming the kids
To be hungry,
and how we cry at the tricks
In the mannequin crowd
What circus is this?

And the ears they rear up
At the buckling sound
of the storm in the cup
how we swallow it down
And the actors are stuck
In their tragedy towns
Where the brochures drum up
For a comedy clown

And the pennies they fly
With a scissoring sound
To a petticoat dress
And a wolf in a crown

Is there magic in this?
In the sleeping sound
Of the beat and the miss
Of a heart held down
There’s a word on the lips
Of the gathering mouth
Don’t wait, don’t wait around
For too long

Don’t wait
Don’t wait around
For too long

What circus is this ?
What circus is this ?