[ti:Long Slow Slide] [ar:Jewel] [al:] [00:01.39]Long Slow Slide [00:03.07]Jewel [00:04.84] [00:19.48]Lights are bright in the circus [00:27.88]The geeks and the freaks all light cigarettes and laugh at your misery [00:35.86]While the white of the curtain closing crushes your heart [00:45.08]The inertia of loneliness tears your flesh apart [00:53.34]It's a long slow slide [00:57.83]It's a long slow slide [01:02.46]It's a long slow slide [01:09.45]Down [01:10.76]Once the neon is gone [01:14.90]There's still that golden splinter at your side [01:19.98]His manners are charming [01:22.12]But who are you fooling [01:24.16]You're still nobody's bride [01:28.56]And Bukowski's widow [01:31.88]Haunts each empty seat on the ferris wheel [01:41.48]As ghoulish lovers collide in a collage of kisses that they steal [01:45.68]It's a long slow slide [01:49.76]It's a long slow slide [01:54.48]It's a long slow slide [02:01.43]Down [02:02.82] [02:24.01]And outside your window you can see the circus it's lurching [02:31.63]with rings of smoke [02:32.77]You laugh halfheartedly at the punchline [02:34.77]Not realizing they've made you the joke [02:39.71]And inside you're heart a war is raging [02:42.87]A region still untamed [02:48.14]The worst fear I can imagine is for the mystery to be named [02:54.94]Is for the mystery to be named [03:03.34]It's a long slow slide [03:07.83]It's a long slow slide [03:12.19]It's a long slow slide [03:20.85]... [03:36.86]Down [03:39.08] [03:40.04]248618967