the man on the tight rope
is doing his best
to hold onto false hope
as tight as he can

with his days unbalanced
being blown in the breeze
life's always a challenge
when you're weak in the knees

the man on the tight rope
is too frightened to turn
while in mid-flow
his rope slowly burns

felling all by himself
above the vast crowd
he would have done well
to sit this one out

the man on the tight rope
deathly afraid of the heights
if he'd only tried harder
he might have made it further in life