Sweeping the floors   Open up the doors   Turn on the lights   Gettin ready for tonight   Nobody's romancing   'Cause it's too early for dancing   But here comes the music      Bright lights flashing   To cover up your lack of   Soul 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 dollars   Give a damn but   When nobody understands   He'll become a smaller man   The bright lights keep flashing   Man the women keep dancing      With the clowns, yeah, yeah, yeah   Pick me up when I'm down yeah, yeah   Rodeo Clowns, yeah, yeah, yeah   Pick me up when I'm down      The disco ball spinning   All the music and the women   All the shots of tequila   Man they'll say that they need ya   But what they really need   Is just a little room to breathe   Teeny bopping dicso 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 changes occured      And now she's just part of the herd yeah, yeah, yeah   Man I thought 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 wet ground   You walk by look at him   But he can't look at you   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, yeah   Pick me up when I'm down yeah, yeah   Rodeo Clowns yeah, yeah, yeah   Pick me up when I'm down      Sweeping the floors   Open up the doors   Turn on the lights   Gettin ready for tonight   Nobody's romancing   'Cause it's too early for dancing   But here comes the music      written by Jack Johnson for G. Love and Special Sauce, recorded on 'Philadelphonic'