Name: Perfect Circus
Duration: P00H04M13S
Description: Media coverage of our political system often feels like a circus which has outstayed its welcome. Perhaps you can sympathise?

Perfect Circus

from Electric Ladywood by Dominic Hyde and Glast Dance

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Media coverage of our political system often feels like a circus which has outstayed its welcome. Perhaps you can sympathise?

lyrics

The circus is coming to town
Every mother's face now wears a frown
Scarecrows in the fields
Share slick, lip-stick smiles

Come in, come all!
Yeah, don't be fooled
Try a suit, try the fruit, just recall
You're here to get your teeth pulled
And the gas has got me quite delirious
Surgeon's somehow imperious,
Why does he have to be so serious?

Ch: Why does he have to be so serious?
'Cos it's Ahab rules in the House of Fools
Got a thousand bent nails for your broken tools,
And if you want to get down in the Council of Clowns
You've got to learn to speak without making a sound
Speak strong, speak mysterious,
Speak long, never weary us!
Why does he have to be so-

Silence: all the clocks,
Tick-tock the venue!
Orchid, Caesar, swan,
Are on the menu;
Each animal of the ark
Has learned to bark on cue.

Zoo noises, child voices, non-choices
Raising storms!
Crowd the crib, crowd the crib,
And there's nothing waiting to be born!
And the gas has got me quite delirious
Surgeon's somehow imperious,
Why does he have to be so serious?

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credits

from Electric Ladywood, released September 25, 2020
Dominic Hyde: songwriter, vocals, piano, guitars
Andy Wellings: bass guitar
Dan Hayward: drums, shaker
Pete Nickless: organ

Toby Wilson: engineer, mixing
Andy Gordon: mastering

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Dominic Hyde and Glast Dance Birmingham, UK

Alt. folk and punk-soul band with a soft spot for thoughtful lyrics.

We love Taj Mahal, John Martyn, The Pixies, Feist, W. H. Auden and Pablo Neruda.

We hope you enjoy our music!

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