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)





sweeping the floors


open up the doors


yeah, turn on the lights


getting ready for the night


nobody's romancin' 


cause it's too early for dancin'


but here come's the music





bright lights flashin'


the color 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


don't give a damn


when nobody understands


he become smaller





and the bright lights keep flashin


and the women keep on dancin'


with the clowns, yeah, yeah


pick me up when I'm down, yeah, yeah


the rodeo clowns, yeah, yeah


pick me up when I'm down, yeah, yeah





the disco ball's spinnin'


all the music and the women


and a shot of tequila


man, they say that the need ya


what they really need


is just a little room to breathe





teeny boppin' disco queen


she barely understands her dreams


her belly button rings


and other kinds of things





symbolic of change


but the thing that is starnge


is that the changes occured


and now she' just a part of the herd, yeah, yeah, yeah


man I though that you heard, yeah yeah





the changes occured  yeah, yeah,  yeah


she's just a part of the herd, yeah yeah





lights out, shut down


late night rec-round


you walk by, look at him


but he can't look at you, yeah





you might feel pitty


but he only feels so grumpy


'cause ah, you understand who's buddy only knows


let down by the corner there's another one


reachin' out a hand


comin' from a broken man


well, you try to live 


but he's done tryin


he's not dead, but definitely dying


with the rest of the clowns, yeah, yeah





with the rest of the clowns, yeah, yeah





(cool)





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





sweeping the floors


open up the doors


yeah, turn on the lights


getting ready for the night


nobody's romancin' 


cause it's too early for dancin'


but here come's the music