High Wire

Keep your head up, your eyes clear

Your chest proud and strong

Slender shoulders to manage

The weight of it all

It’s a delicate balance

For the porcelain doll

Keep your nose to the grindstone

The job’s never done

Burn both ends of the candle

Then light the next one

It’s a delicate balance

To not come undone

I’m up on the high wire, stealing the show

I make it look easy from way down below

Up on the high wire the world seems so small

Craving that sweet flying feeling of free fall

It was easy at first

When I made my debut

The performance was flawless

But the critics all knew

It’s a delicate balance

With a limited view

It was tragic to stumble

In front of the king

Yeah ‘cause I lost my luster

And skinned up my knees

It’s a delicate balance

Asking caged birds to sing

I’m up on the high wire, stealing the show

I make it look easy from way down below

Up on the high wire the world seems so small

Craving that sweet flying feeling of free fall

Free fall

Yeah the marquee is flashing along with the crowd

“What a shame if they gave in to gravity now

You’re our stalwart performer, the show must go on"

Oh but for one night only, a new act’s in town

What a spectacle to witness when I hit the ground

If my shattering’s lovely, they’ll all still applaud

I’m up on the high wire, stealing the show

I make it look easy from way down below

Up on the high wire the world seems so small

Craving that sweet flying feeling of free fall

Free fall, free fall