The Kid Lyrics - David Wilcox

I'm the kid who ran away with the circus 

Now I'm watering elephants 

But I sometimes lie awake in the sawdust 

Dreaming I'm in a suit of light 

Late at night in the empty big top 

I'm all alone on the high wire 

Ladies and gentlemen, there is no net this time 

He's a real death defier 

I'm the kid who always looked out the window 

Failing the tests in geography 

But I have seen things far beyond just this schoolyard 

Distant shores of exotic lands 

There's the spires of the Turkish empire 

Six months since we made landfall 

Riding low with the spices of India 

Through Gibraltar, we're rich men all 

I'm the kid who thought we'd someday be lovers 

Always held out that time would tell 

Time was talking, guess I just wasn't listening 

No surprise, if you know me well 

As we're walking down toward the train station 

I hear a whispering rainfall 

Across the boulevard, you slip your hand in mine 

In the distance the trains last call 

I'm the kid who has this habit of dreaming 

That sometimes gets me in trouble too 

But the truth is, I could no more stop dreaming 

Than I could make them all come true