Clown Strike Lyrics

The song Clown Strike is performed by Elvis Costello in the album named Brutal Youth (With Bonus Disc) in the year 2002 .



She'll fix you with an iron cross and cover you up with petals
And hang you up with some amber beads and four or five precious metals
And in that black flamingo chair, you'll sit among her trophies
And pray to be abandoned till you don't know what hope is

But there's one thing that I'd had to keep inside
Because I was shaking, why don't you get some pride?
There was a clown strike and the clowns threw down their tools
But you don't have to play so hard and I'm nobody's fool
You don't have to go so far 'cause I love you as you are

The big top is deserted now and the circus girl rehearses
She knows how to turn their heads and not fall between two horses
But all that seems a simple step if only I were able
To love you like I wanna do and not by some times table

But there's one thing that I'd have to keep inside
Because I was shaking, why don't you get some pride?
There was a clown strike and the clowns threw down their tools
But you don't have to play so hard and I'm nobody's fool
You don't have to go so far 'cause I love you as you are

And it's pandemonium for the humble and the mighty
You don't have to tumble for me, even a clown knows when to strike

Tell me, what you want of me or are you terrified of failure?
You put on a superstitious face behind all this paraphernalia
We're not living in a masquerade where you only have three wishes
It isn't easy to see in a lifetime of mistaken kisses

But there's one thing that I'd have to keep inside
Because I was shaking, why don't you get some pride?
There was a clown strike and the clowns threw down their tools
But you don't have to play so hard and I'm nobody's fool
You don't have to go so far 'cause I love you as you are

And it's pandemonium for the humble and the mighty
You don't have to tumble for me, even a clown knows when to strike




Elvis Costello - Brutal Youth (With Bonus Disc)

Feb 2002

  1. Pony St.
  2. Kinder Murder
  3. 13 Steps Lead Down
  4. This Is Hell
  5. Clown Strike
  6. You Tripped At Every Step
  7. Still Too Soon To Know
  8. 20% Amnesia
  9. London's Brilliant Parade
  10. My Science Fiction Twin
  11. Rocking Horse Road
  12. Just About Glad
  13. All The Rage
  14. Favourite Hour
  15. Life Shrinks
  16. Idiophone
  17. Abandon Words
  18. Poisoned Letter
  19. A Drunken Man's Praise Of Sobriety
  20. You Tripped At Every Step (Alt. Version


Clown Strike