Good Riddance - Twelve Year Circus lyrics

It was a day like any other

My son he turned to me and said,

"Father, wherever did we go so wrong?"

I thought it over for a minute and said

Son for twelve years

There was a circus

Sometimes I want to dream my life away

And other times it all seems wrong

Still other days I want to throw my life away

That's when I know I don't belong

Now when i'm down some people ask me

Just when and where my luck did change

I smile and say the eighties broke my spirit

'Cause when the circus came to town

I was in it's way

This charade is not for me

Just put aside what I think it means to me

Just put aside my eccentricities

There's nothing for me in this one horse town

At least until the circus came around