Cirkus (Live in Vienna, 1 December 2016)

Night, her sable dome scattered with diamonds
 Fused my dust from a light year
 Squeezed me to her breast, sewed me with carbon
 Strung my warp across time
 Gave me each horse, sunrise and graveyard
 Told me only I was her
 Bid me face the east closed me in questions
 Built the sky for my dawn
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 Cleaned my feet of mud, followed the empty
 Zebra ride to the cirkus
 Past a painted cage, spoke to the paybox
 Glove which wrote on my tonque
 Pushed me down a slide to the arena
 Megaphonium fanfare
 In his cloak of words strode the ringmaster
 Bid me join the parade
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 "Worship!" cried the clown. "I'm a TV"
 "Making bandsmen go clockwork"
 "See the slinky seal cirkus policeman"
 "Bareback ladies have fish"
 Strongmen by his feet, plate-spinning statesman
 Accrobatically juggling
 Bids his tamers go quiet the tumblers
 Lest the mirror stop turning
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 Elephants forgot, force-fed on stale chalk
 Ate the floors of their cages
 Strongmen lost their hair, paybox collapsed and
 Lions sharpened their teeth
 Gloves raced round the ring, stallions stampeded
 Pandemonium seesaw
 I ran for the door, ringmaster shouted
 "All the fun of the cirkus!"