It's hard these days to know the skinny
When all I see is fat
What once was less is many
Clean our plates till nothing's left

We sit around in wonder
And wonder at the time
We used to be quite healthy
Before we lost our minds and gave up the fight

Out of shape couch potato's
Heavy butter, mean sour cream
With forks and knives we hold on tight
The spoon fed lies they make us eat

Slide and slip our gym memberships
Inside this no judgment zone
With pizza hips and soda pop lips
We roll our carcasses back home

Is it any wonder we're going asunder
In this age of stuffing face
As we reach for second helpings
Forgetting most times to say grace

Will you be dining in
To the new millennium
To the sound of smacking lips
To this lacklusterness

It's hard to know the skinny
When the world is full of fat
What once was less is many
Clean our plates till nothings left

Given little glimpses
By the wandering of mind
A slight peak thru picket fences
Of a different time in life

Flashes of remembrance
Abstract in the make
Clouded by the distance
The way I remember yesterday

Delighted every time in
Child like memories
Finding them enlightening
Every time they are set free

A simple game of fishing
Tossing lines into the wake
Pull out what I've been missing
The way I remember yesterday

Further than I figure
Farther than it seems
Differences remembered
In the shadow of my dreams

A ball that keeps on rolling
Frame by frame this give and take
For whom the bell keeps tolling
The way I remember yesterday

I'm tired of walking your tight rope
Holding roaring lions back
Pretending there's no elephant in the room
Then trying my best to make you laugh

You can throw at me one, two, or three rings
It's time this tent came down
You can play for keeps but I'm running free
This Circus is leaving town

I'm through running thru your firey hoops
When you've yet to set a net
This acrobat can't keep up with you
Much more of this is certain death

You can shoot me from your cannon
This clown's no longer clowning around
There's no telling these days where I'm landing
But this Circus is leaving town

You once were as sweet as cotton candy
I'm now washing my hands of you
This has become a sticky situation
There's not a whole lot more that we can do

Except close the ***** on this Big Top
Pull the stakes from out the ground
Clear the land from where we stand
This Circus is leaving town

I have a serious crush on Dorthy
While she has a Kansas crush on them
The Lion and the Scarecrow
Not to mention the Tin Man

The only time you see her
These days is when
She's skipping about town with those three clowns
Her not so ordinary new friends

She says that they all met
Somewhere over the rainbow
While she met me over coffee
Wouldn't you know that's the way it goes

It's hard for me to compete
With anything like that
Though one is brainless, one is heartless
The other a scaredy cat

She says they show her adventure
Where the only thing that I
Can really show her is Kansas
And its vast empty sky line

The few times that Dorthy
And I have ever had a chance to go out
The magical land of Oz
Is all she wants to talk about

To me it seems like a dream
And we all know how those are
Not really very interesting
If you don't play a part

So I stand off at a distance
Gaze on from a far
While she along with those three
Skip off with my heart

Cause I have a serious crush on Dorthy
While she has a big Kansas crush on them
The Lion and the Scarecrow
Not to mention the Tin Man

Oh, and by the way Dorthy
Those ruby reds that you have on
Don't really go with
Your Kansas city overalls

I found out too late how short life is
Come to think, it's gone in a blink
Be it a hit or be it a miss
Pack up your bags and get ready to leave

Just when you thought that you owned it
Life turns on you waving bye, bye
No time for grass to grow underfoot
As you watch both pigs and time fly

Don't it seem like you just got here
Without a second to rest
Your mind may be fuzzy but it's very clear
Just a stones throw away from certain death

It's not like you gave life permission
To move at such an alarming rate
You'd complain but no one is listening
When they themselves are a few days away

So **** it up buttercup
In life there are no guarantees
Just when you feel you've beaten the rush
Come to think, it's gone in a blink

when i was a young girl
i dreamed of a future
that held many wonders
for a youngster like me

i lived in the moment
but not for a moment
did i think that lonely
would be my destiny

i found middle age
to be less than expected
the day that i met it
youth ran out on me

now that i'm an old woman
much older than wanted
seems strange now don't it
that this is me

when i was a young girl
i dreamed of a future
that held many wonders
that now has me

....wondering

Can you pretend you never knew me
Act like we never met
See me on the street, look right through me
My broken heart thinks that's best

Pretend there were never any good times
Before all this fell apart
When I was yours and you were mine
Although I hope you find it hard

Do your best to count your blessings
Since Cupids arrows have been removed
Mark it all down as a lesson
That I still struggle to make it through

Try and pretend we never mattered
Turn off all your memories
Forget the times we filled with laughter
And that I was once your greatest need

And if you find all this pretending
Has left you empty in both heart and head
You will find me more than willing
To take our love and pretend again