The Clowns lyrics - The Clarks

There’s a rusting religion with a broken converter
Parse the good book’s words justifying hate and murder

In a government lockbox everything gets lost
Like old grease on a sprocket
We sent Jack up the Hill to fix it all
He tumbled down with gold lined pockets

It’s going down right now
What do we do now?

Send in the clowns, the clowns
Run into the ground
When you send in the clowns

Winner at all cost on a soapbox
He spoke in doubletalk and riddles
Sounds so good I was in a spell
But while the town was burning he played the fiddle

I had a dream that I would come back
And what was stolen by the state had been replaced
And we’d replant love where there was loss
Then send the grifters a coup de grace

It’s going down right now
What do we do now?

Send in the clowns, the clowns
Run into the ground
When you send in the clowns

The Runaway lyrics - The Clarks

She swore by the deep long lines on her face cut like a badge of life
Worn by tracks and trials and alone somehow that didn’t seem right
Somehow that didn’t seem right

She lived for…
Sins of a better day
Girl you’re a runaway
Rode hard torn and frayed
When you’re a runaway

Stood for something and I stood too long I don’t know when to quit
Got a conscience on hold and the road reels me in I don’t know where I fit
I don’t know where I fit

She dreamed of
Sins of a better day
Girl you’re a runaway
Rode hard torn and frayed
When you’re a runaway

Face full of wind her mysteries survive I want to ride that wave
It keeps me running it keeps me high last words I heard her say

She drown in
Sins of a better day
Girl you’re a runaway
Rode hard torn and frayed
When you’re a runaway

In Between lyrics - The Clarks

Turns out everything is ok
But that’s not the way it’s always been
Time was everything bad outside
Was all in my head

Here comes the night here comes the rain
Here comes the morning in between to bring back the pain
Here comes the night here comes the rain
Here comes the morning in between to bring back the pain

Time was I used to stare at my feet
Counting up cracks getting up the nerve
I’m gonna whip this mess color over the lines
Spit off a bridge then kick up some dirt

I want to thank you for being ‘round
To scare away what brings me down
I want to feel your cool serenade
And if the clouds form again will you stay?

Here comes the night here comes the rain
Here comes the morning in between to bring back the pain
Here comes the night here comes the rain
Here comes the morning in between to bring back the pain

Turns out everything is alright
‘cause I see more than what’s inside me
When curses freeze my soul I keep in mind
Most of what’s real is what you believe

Here comes the night here comes the rain
Here comes the morning in between to bring back the pain
Here comes the night here comes the rain
And if the clouds form again will you stay

What A Wonderful World lyrics - The Clarks

I see trees of green, red roses, too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I say to myself what wonderful world

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
Bright sunny days dark sacred nights
And I think to myself what a wonderful world

The colors of the rainbow are so pretty in the skies
Are also on the faces of people walking by
I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do?
They're really saying I love you

I see babies cry I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll ever know
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Yes, I think to myself what a wonderful world

"Fast Moving Cars" (2004)

Hell On Wheels lyrics - The Clarks

I've got the moon over my shoulder, I'm not a looking back
I've got the world in my headlights, and it just feels right
This stream of consciousness, no surprise
I can see when I close my eyes, tonight

I've got a Civic to my right, and he's starts talking smack
One thing I can't, ignore, is a punk like that
He's the devil I know or the devil I don't
Welcome to my dust and stones, goodbye

Hell on Wheels, free at last
When the road is your world, there's nothing like going fast
Hell on Wheels, free at last
What's left behind leaves one less thing to pass

There's a yearning and desire still burning in the back of my mind
I won't kiss away the best days of my life

Hell on wheels, free at last
When the radio fades, you'll know life's moving fast
Hell on wheels, free at last

I've got the moon over my shoulder, I'm not a looking back
I've got the world in my headlights, and it just feels right
There's a breeze that blows in through my hair
The colors in the desert air
Nothing in this world compares, tonight

Hell on wheels, free at last
When the road is your world, there's nothing like going fast
Hell on wheels, free at last
When you're making the rules, there's no way to finish last

Anymore lyrics - The Clarks

I gave my love everything
I tied an old glass heart to a ring
But she put it on a shelf
And I found it didn't help anything

I gave my love all the time
I tied a worn out dress to a rhyme
But she left it at the door
And I found it on the floor every time

And I won't be making love or taking love
or faking it no more
And I won't be breaking love forsaking love
or taking it no more

I gave my love every day
I took a dead end road and made a way
But she said it wouldn't work
And I found it in reverse anyway

And I won't be making love or taking love
or faking it no more
And I won't be breaking love forsaking love
or taking it no more
And I won't be knocking on love's door anymore
Someday I'm gonna turn it around I know I know

I gave my love everything
I took a tired song and made it sing
But she put it on a shelf
And I found it didn't help anything

And I won't be making love or taking love
or faking it no more
And I won't be breaking love forsaking love
or wasting it no more
And I won't be making love or taking love
or shaking it no more
And I won't be aching love for taking love from me
Anymore

Shimmy Low lyrics - The Clarks

I've been down this road ten times
I would run, I would hide
From the fears that ruled my mind
And so I asked this guy
We'll call him Oz, call him wise
He laughed and offered his advice

Get out of your black hole
Join life's circus sideshow

Shimmy, shimmy low, Got to free my soul
Want to walk on water, Gonna lose control
Shimmy, shimmy low, Got to free my soul
Gonna walk on water, Gonna lose control

I'd practice to believe
Fear is real, a disease
And hold myself against my knees
And if you lose your mind
Call the sun, then unwind
There's too much to leave behind

He said you ought to know
Life's on remote control...Got to...

Shimmy, shimmy low, Got to free my soul
Want to walk on water, Gonna lose control
Shimmy, shimmy low, Got to free my soul
Want to walk on water, Gonna lose control

Much to my surprise, I've been so high
I'll kiss the sky from this broken dream I'll rise

Shimmy, shimmy low, Got to free my soul
Want to walk on water, Gonna lose control

Got to Shimmy, shimmy low, Got to free my soul

Wait A Minute lyrics - The Clarks

Wait a minute can we stop the car right here
Can I take a picture here can I
Have a second just to take in all the sights
All the southern stars and northern lights
Wait a minute can we put aside the past
Can we make it something last for life

Say wrong say right tonight
Say wrong say right tonight

Wait a minute can you play that song again
It makes me think about a friend can I
Have a second can you take me back in time
Close my eyes and hear her voice her rhyme
Wait a minute can I say I'm sorry now
I admit I don't know how or why

Say wrong say right tonight
I need everything that you need
I breathe the same air that you breathe
Say wrong say right tonight
I need everything that you need
I breathe the same air that you breathe

And I've been wrong now for so long
I'm just trying to get it right

Happy lyrics -The Clarks

I'm never gonna smile
I'm never gonna stay for awhile
I'm never gonna laugh
You might as well just cut me in half

Just want to run
Just want to live til I'm done
Just want to be

As happy as I'm gonna be
And there's nothing on the inside
I'm not high on life I'm not drunk on love
I'm broken down not feeling right

I'm happy as I'm gonna be
When there's nothing on the inside
I'm not high on life I'm not drunk on love
Not feeling right

I'm never gonna find
The thing I need to make up my mind
I'm never gonna stand
Next to you I do what I can

Just want to run
Just want to lie in the sun
Just want to be

As happy as I'm gonna be
And there's nothing on the inside
I'm not high on life I'm not drunk on love
I'm broken down not feeling right

I'm happy as I'm gonna be
When there's nothing on the inside
I'm not high on life I'm not drunk on love
Not feeling right

I'm never gonna write
Lay with you or whisper goodnight
I'm never gonna call
That way I'll have nothing at all

Just want to run
Just want to live til I'm done
Just want to be

Blue lyrics - The Clarks

Hey now, the storm is overhead
I can't believe the words you said
Somehow I missed the point that we were only friends
To me it seems that I've been blind
To you it's all so well defined
Now here I sit my hands, holding up my head

It should have been me
That made it with you
Sadly all my dreams turned blue
It should have been me
That made it with you
I ignored all of your clues

Hey now, there must have been a time
When I was more than border line
But who's to blame, emotions somehow get misread
I hate to bring it up again
I won't let go, I can't defend
But what's the use if we, constantly pretend

It should have been me
That made it with you
Sadly all my dreams turned blue
It should have been me
That made it with you
But that's not your point of view

Hey now you must have left behind
I painted a picture and a rhyme
You painted me into the corner of your mind
So sad you won't be coming back
So close the curtain, fade to black
So long, this time has passed, I'm here for you to find

It should have been me
That made it with you
Sadly all my dreams turned blue
It should have been me
That made it with you
But my dream turned shades of blue

Fast Moving Cars lyrics - The Clarks

Lonely faces all along the way
Broken city all dressed up in gray
In the rain outside the restaurant

I make money but I still feel broke
I start drinking and I want a smoke
Doing doughnuts in the parking lot

Driving fast moving cars and drinking
Old in these bars and thinking I could
Paint all those stars

Empty bottles on an empty stage
End of story on the final page
Of a book that no one knows about

This is it this is my last goodbye
This is where my dreams go to die
In the trash behind the record shop

I'm driving fast moving cars and drinking
Old in these bars and thinking I could
Paint all those stars
Singing old timey songs and thinking I could
Right all these wrongs and drinking 'til the
Pain is all gone

After all this time I still believe
With a few tricks hidden up my sleeve
In the sun way down in Mexico

She Says Don't Miss Me lyrics -The Clarks

She is sitting all alone but he sent flowers
All alone she sits there thinking this is not right
She questions all her thoughts at home for hours
He offers nothing in return for her to sit tight

Her dreams are tired and bound
Her stars are all falling down
I won't make a sound

She just sleeps right through the day when the suns up
Never knowing how to finish her dreams
All her friends will go away when she wakes up
She won't need them when there's something to believe in

The nighttime isn't so kind
Too many truths there to find
I won't change her mind

She says don't miss me
I will be alright
Because I'm not alone
I will be alright

She says don't leave tonight
She wonders why it's not right
She sees her visions in flight
I will hold on tight
I won't give her a fight

She says don't miss me
I will be alright
Because I'm not alone
I will be alright

Gypsy Lounge lyrics - The Clarks

My sometimes lady
Call her sexy Sadie when she comes around
She dances for me
I spend my twenty when I roll through town

I think I'll be leaving
There's no one here I have not been
There's no more believing
I'm only saved 'cause I'm tired of sin

And every day when the sun goes down
Every way when her walls come down
My baby dances at the Gypsy Lounge

This drunked-up trucker
He tried to luck here into going down town
Smashed his kneecap
House's ball bat a fifth of Crown

I think I'll be leaving
There's nothing here I have not seen
There's no more believing
That nothing comes like in between

And every day when the sun goes down
Every way when her walls come down
My baby dances at the Gypsy Lounge

You Know Everything lyrics - The Clarks

You lift me up to knock me down
But I don't want to play your game
I'm giving back this thorny crown
And there'll be no one else to blame

I used to think you had a heart
Then you picked up that poison pen
I should have known right from the start
That all good things come to an end

I'm not gonna waste my precious time
I know I'm never gonna change your mind

Cause you know everything
You know everything
You know everything

You hung my pictures on the wall
But nothing in this world is free
Now you won't even catch my fall
It's murder in the first degree

I've been torn up I've been knocked down
That's all you ever meant to do
You've taken back your thorny crown
Now you be me and I'll be you