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'