Rodeo Clowns — Jack Johnson

Sweeping the floors Open up the doors Turn on the lights Gettin ready for tonight Nobody's romancing 'Cause it's too early for dancing But here comes the music

Bright lights flashing To cover up your lack of Soul many people so many problems So many reasons to buy another round Drink it down Just another night on the town With the big man Money man Better than the other man He got the plan with the million dollars Give a damn but When nobody understands He'll become a smaller man The bright lights keep flashing Man the women keep dancing

With the clowns, yeah, yeah, yeah Pick me up when I'm down yeah, yeah Rodeo Clowns, yeah, yeah, yeah Pick me up when I'm down

The disco ball spinning All the music and the women All the shots of tequila Man they'll say that they need ya But what they really need Is just a little room to breathe Tiny bopping dicso queen She barely understands her dreams Of belly button rings And other kinds of things Symbolic of change But the thing that is strange Is that changes occured

And now she's just part of the herd yeah, yeah, yeah Man I thought that you heard yeah, yeah The changes occured yeah, yeah, yeah She's just a part of the herd yeah,yeah

Lights out shut down Late night wet ground You walk by look at him But he can't look at you you might feel pity But he only feels the ground because You understand moods But he only knows let down By the corner there's another one Reaching out a hand Coming from a broken man Well you try to live But he's done trying Not dead but definitely dying

With the rest of the clowns yeah, yeah, yeah Pick me up when I'm down yeah, yeah Rodeo Clowns yeah, yeah, yeah Pick me up when I'm down

Sweeping the floors Open up the doors Turn on the lights Gettin ready for tonight Nobody's romancing 'Cause it's too early for dancing But here comes the music

written by Jack Johnson for G. Love and Special Sauce, recorded on 'Philadelphonic'