Sometimes I miss the circus but I know why I ran away

I stepped right out of that song while it played

I lit it like a stage and I gave it like a gift

What I got out of it is this

Be suspicious but friendly to your elders

Be friendly but suspicious to other circuses

Trust your friends even if you can't trust your friends

You've already agreed to travel with them

So long to the circus, so long to it all

I've always had a good sense of when it's time to get gone

When the police are about to arrive, when security steps in

Wave goodbye to the circus

Sometimes I miss the circus and the friends I made

Never would have left had you stayed

You left us like a stage that you'd outgrown

Leaving me stunned and all alone

So long to the circus, so long to it all

I've always had a good sense of when it's time to get gone

When the police are about to arrive, when security steps in

Wave goodbye to the circus

Wave goodbye to the circus, don't cry

It was just another circus, it was just your first time

You didn't know what you were doing, you couldn't know what you missed

What did you get out of this?

That Love is real, unstoppable

Actually a wild animal

Self-interested, amoral and cruel

And you got between it and food

So long to the circus, so long to it all

You should have a good sense of when it's time to get gone

When the police are about to arrive, when security steps in

Wave goodbye to the circus