Lyrics
Her parents met back in the circus you see
The tattooed fat lady the guy high on trapeze
She sat next to him at the circus wide meeting
He felt a shock that sent him through the ceiling
He had been so driven to be the most very best
The thrill and the danger of being high about the rest
Her love for him filled up her hunger inside
But as she got too thin, she eventually got fired.
When they had a daughter he got a new fascination
His brothers fired him for his loss of concentration
The drunken knife thrower and the juggler named Mack
Said it wouldn’t last, that trapeze boy would be back
But he took a job slinging hash at an all-night café
And the lovers bought a trailer outside of Green Bay
They were happy for years, ‘til the girl was school aged
Mom found a job at Wal-Mart and their family life changed
Mom got her skin trimmed by a doc in the city
Dad spent his time watching a wide-screen TV
They forgot how it was their love that had transformed them
The girl was the only thing that they had between them
Mom feared the girl would make the same mistakes she did
And made a long list of rules of what was most forbidden
And Dad was afraid of his influence on her girl
That she might be bit by the need for big thrills
Mom worried and waited for conflicts to start
Dad feared that his daughter would someday break his heart
But the girl worked hard and did all the right stuff
Wanted to, like her folks, be transformed by love
I met this girl at the University of Wisconsin (W-o-o-o-o)
My life was a wreck, smooth sailing since then (W-o-o-o-o)
Our love has transformed us in so many ways (Ah-h-h-h-h)
Just like her folks back in the old circus days (Ah-h-h-h-h)
First Verse