Jack Johnson: Rodeo Clowns

Sweepin' the floors
Open up the doors yeah
Turn on the lights
Gettin' ready for the night
Nobody's romancin'
'cause it's too early for dancin'
but here comes the music

Bright lights flashing they cover up your life
There's so 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 dollar give a damn
When nobody understands
He'll become a smaller man
The bright lights keep flashin'
Man the women keep on dancin'

With the clowns yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Pick me up when I'm down yeah, yeah
The rodeo clowns yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Pick me up when I'm down yeah, yeah

The disco ball spinnin' all the music and the women and the
Shots of tequila man they'll say that they need ya
But what they really need,
Is just a little room to breathe

A teeny boppin' disco 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 the
Changes occurred and now she's just a part of the
Herd yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Man I thought that you heard yeah, yeah
The changes occurred yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
She's just 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 yeah
You might feel pity but he only feels the ground
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
Mmmmmm with the rest of the clowns

The rodeo clowns yeah yeah yeah, yeah
Pick me up when I'm down yeah, yeah
The rodeo clowns yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Pick me up when I'm down yeah, yeah

Sweepin' the floors
Open up the doors yeah
Turn on the lights
Gettin' ready for the night
Nobody's romancin' 'cause it's too early for dancin'
But here comes the music