did you hear the calliope

smell cotton candy spun

see wicked clowns and tigers

blood drying in the sun

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kiss the bearded lady

waltz the lizard girl

hear elephants screaming

see the gypsies twirl

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smoke under a laughing moon

the carny’s toothless grin

fat lady crushed a midget

only one sad siamese twin

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it’s no carnival

from lands far away

it lives inside my twisted

a new show every day