Scenes From A Vinyl Recliner Lyrics - Bread & Circus - Toad The Wet Sprocket

High on a wire 

Poised for an imminent fall 

Clowns always smile 

Greasepaint and lust in their pores 

Start to sway and I hold your hand 

Fall, the smile surrounds his head 

Hot ashes, clay 

Hot ashes fade 

To lean, to err, too far along for me 

To wait around, to smile is to accept 

In center ring 

Rolling in sawdust and hay 

Covered in paint 

Damn everything but the circus 

Damn the men and the women who stare 

At the freaks in the cages and snares 

Hot ashes, clay 

Hot ashes fade 

To win, to err, to fall, too far for safety 

To lean, to wait a while is too easy 

Hot ashes, clay 

Hot ashes fade 

To lean towards, to fall too far for me 

To wait a while around is too easy 

To lean too long, to fall too far for safety 

To seem, to smile, to lie is to accept