Gaby Moreno
Mean Old Circus lyrics with English translation
- Language
- Spanish
- Level
- Beginner
- Released
- 2011
- Genre
- Pop, Rock, R&B, Latin Pop
- Length
- 3:36
Traveling far through the meadows and woods
Hearing cries, echoes, and woos
Laughter and chants going down where the joker's play
A harrowing blues
Nonchalant I remain
In that old circus train
The sweet bitter taste, ooh
Mean old circus, mean old circus
Mean old circus, be my twisted road
Be the answer, be the answer
My solution to the great unknown
A sweet illusion, lost in confusion
A new connection to my perception
A dancing horse's feathered crown
Where all the painted suns go down
Another curtain, a camel's burden
A new pretension toward my invention
A song that cries for calliopes
Comes so naturally
It comes so naturally
Mean old circus, mean old circus
Mean old circus, be my twisted road
Be the answer, be the answer
My solution to the teared up soul
A revelation for conversation
A new permission for my religion
A sleeping lion's lion dreams
In my forsaken evil schemes
In books and movies, keep talking to me
A new direction for my correction
We'll dance across a silver thread
Bailaremos sobre un hilo de plata
Put the sky to bed
Pondremos el cielo a dormir
We'll put the sky to bed
Pondremos el cielo a dormir
Oh, we'll put the sky to bed, ooh
Oh, pondremos el cielo a dormir, ooh
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Key vocabulary
- traveling
- travel
- far
- do
- woos
- woo
- chants
- chant
- taste
- sabor
- comes
- you eatA2
- teared
- torn
- sleeping
- sleep
- schemes
- plans
- forsaken
- abandoned
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About this song
Gaby Moreno is a Guatemalan singer-songwriter who works in Americana, performing in both Spanish and English. She is known for her Emmy- and Grammy-nominated compositions and for recording music for film and television, including Parks and Recreation, Orange Is the New Black, and Cabinet of Curiosities.