Goodbye circus wheel May you rest along the seas Well, I've given you the fight of my youth And the triumph of my enemies And goodbye to fair-weather home And your faithless factories I have given you the blood and the truth From the wounds that they laid on me And whatever they left I kept it for my own heart And the lonesome understand With the choirs in my head And we were orphans before We were ever the sons of regret My baby, and on and on and on How the alphabet boys carry on We were orphans before We were ever the sons in your songs And now my lights, they never go down The watch the moon and stars for me now So you can find some local Libertine To take your daughters out on the town And I can feel it in my aging bones How the sound of the rain mixes up Into the fountains where I drank my hero's blood So I left you to find my very own hat for the rain And the lonesome understand With the choirs in my head And we were orphans before We were ever the sons of regret My baby, and on and on and on How the alphabet boys carry on We were orphans before We were ever the sons of your songs And now I'm trying to keep it straight Learning all the streets and the alleyways And learning where they lead Now that I'm left alone here to drive But it's so hard to stand on your own Against mirror of glass, hot and cold But the clothes I wore Just don't fit my soul anymore No, the clothes I wore Just don't fit my soul anymore And the lonesome understand With the choirs in my head And we were orphans before We were ever the sons of regret My baby, and on and on and on How the alphabet boys carry on We were orphans before We were ever the sons in your songs When we were young We were diamond Sinatra's Like something I saw in a dream We kept our secrets and rules Locked up tight like a tomb Where the ballerinas lay
