Rodeo Clowns

Album: Philadelphonic (1999)
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  • Yo, what's up?

    This is G-Love coming at you live out here from California,
    Even though I'm Philly born and bred

    And I got my man Jack Johnson in the studio today, we just got out of the surf
    My man, Jack, tell 'em what time it is

    (uh, com 'on)

    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 flashin'
    To cover of your liquor
    So many people, so many powers,
    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 on dancin'
    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, yeah, yeah

    The disco ball spinning
    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

    Teeny bopping 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 changes occurred
    And now she's just a part of the herd yeah, yeah, yeah
    Man I thought that you heard yeah, yeah
    The changes occur yeah, yeah, yeah
    She's just a part of the herd yeah, yea

    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 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
    He's not dead but definitely dying

    With the rest of the clowns yeah, yeah, yeah

    With the rest of the clowns yeah, yeah, yeah


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

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

    Sweeping the floors
    Open up the doors yeah
    Turn on the lights
    Getting ready for the night
    Nobody's romancing
    Cause it's too early for dancin'
    But here comes the music Writer/s: Jack Hody Johnson
    Publisher: Bubble Toes Publishing, REACH MUSIC PUBLISHING
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Jordan from GeelongCool Song, also on Jack Johnson's "On and On" album.
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