Capo 2nd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

 Chords: , , (355433),

(2 = alternate, no pinky fret - i.e. G2 = 353433)

Intro

Verse

sweeping the floors, open up the doors, yeah

turn on the lights, getting ready for tonight

nobodys romancing 'cause its too early for dancin

but here comes the music

bright lights flashing to cover up your lack of so

many people, so many problems, so many reasons

 to buy another round, drink it down

 just another night on the town

with the big man, money man, better than the other man

he got the plan with the million dollar give a damn

when nobody understands he'll become a smaller man

the bright lights keep flashing, the women keep on dancing

Chorus

with the clowns, yeah, yeah, yeah...

 they pick me up when I'm down yeah-yeah

the rodeo clowns, yeah, yeah, yeah

 they pick me up when I'm down

the disco ball spinning, all the music and the women

the shots of tequila, man they'll say that they need ya,

but what they really need

is just a little room to breathe

teeny bopping disco queen, she barely understands

her dreams of bellybutton rings and other kinds of things

symbolic of change but the thing that is strange

is that the changes occurred...

and now she's just a part of the

herd....yeah, yeah, yeah, man I thought

that you heard...yeah, yeah

 the changes occurred, yeah, yeah, yeah, (yeah)

 just a part of the herd

lights out, shut down, late night, wet ground

you walk by look at him, but he cant look at you, yeah

you might feel pity but he only feels the ground

you understand moods but he only knows let down

by the corner there's another one

reaching out a hand, coming from a broken man, yeah

you try to live but he's done trying

not dead, but definitely dying

 with the rest of the clowns.....yeah, yeah

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmmm...Mmmmm with the rest of the clowns....

, , , (BONGO SOLO)

sweeping the floors, open up the doors, yeah

turn on the lights, getting ready for tonight

nobody's romancing 'cause its too early for dancing

but here comes the music