This is my submission for this weeks Steemit Open Mic contest by @pfunk and @luzcypher. This week I play a song by Jack Johnson called 'Rodeo Clowns'.

...so without further ado...

'Rodeo Clowns'

Lyrics -

Sweepin' the floors, open up the doors
Turn on the light, gettin' ready for tonight
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
Pick me up when I'm down yeah, yeah
The rodeo clowns 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,
Man I thought that you heard yeah, yeah
The changes occurred yeah, yeah, yeah
She's just part of the herd

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

Sweepin' the floors, open up the doors yeah
Turn on the light, gettin' ready for tonight
Nobody's romancin', 'cause it's too early for dancin'
But here comes the music

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Thanks for listening!

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