The Little Guy Lyrics

History spins like a carnival wheel

Nobody knows for certain what is real

Hear ye all and bring out your kin

Open your eyes and the circus will begin

The strongman is lifting elephants with ease

The Ripusoff Brothers are on the flying trapeze

And the show you've all been dying to see

It boggles the mind and defies gravity

So subtle it's almost sublime

It's the little guy getting smaller all the time

How does he do it? Nobody knows

But he's shrinking as fast as the fat lady grows

He's shrinking into his stage right disguise

He's shrinking as fast as, say, bank profits rise

The circus crowd cheers, it stands and it sighs

Smiling but disbelieving their eyes

The ringmaster cries, this is not in your mind

The little guy's getting smaller all the time

The little guy's getting smaller

Ma said, a girl in the crowd, what I fear

Could the little guy get so small to just disappear

And her mother smiled as mothers often do

And said, "Oh my sweet little child, listen to you."

And the clowns and the jugglers all sing

La la la la la la

La la la la la la

La la la la la la

La la

Do do do

La la la la la la

Do do do do do

When the little guy shrank so small to be gone

I clapped my hands, but I sensed something wrong

The Ringmaster bowed and the crowd it did rise

The theater was spinning before my eyes

Sick to my stomach, my legs they went bandy

I blamed it on the malt and the pink cotton candy

I ran to the restroom and the answer was clear

When the back wall was all that I saw in the mirror

It was oh so painful to see

That the little guy who disappeared turned out to be me

Yeah, the little guy who disappeared turned out to be me

Oh, the little guy who disappeared turned out to be

La la la la la la

Da da da da da

Da da da da da da da da

La da da da da da

Do do do do do

Flup bup be bup a dee bo

Flup bup da de wooo