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