A Long Slow Slide
(Jewel Kilcher)


Goodbye Alice in Wonderland

Bonus Track This Way version japonaise
Maxi single Standing Still version australienne

The lights are bright in the circus
The geeks and the freaks all light cigarettes and laugh at your misery
While the weigth of the curtain closing crushes your heart
The inertia of loneliness tears your flesh apart
It's a long slow slide
It's a long slow slide
It's a long slow slide
Down

Once the neon is gone
There's still that golden splinter at your side
His manners are charming
But who are you fooling
You are still nobody's bride
While Bukowski's widow
Haunts each empty seat on the ferris wheel
Ghoulish lovers collide in a collage of kisses that they steal
It's a long slow slide
It's a long slow slide
It's a long slow slide
Down

And outside the window
The circus crackles and lurches with rings of smoke
You laugh half-heartedly at the punchline
Not realizing they've made you the joke
And inside my heart a war is raging
In regions still untamed
The worst fear I can imagine is for the mystery to be named
Is for the mystery to be named
It's a long slow slide
It's a long slow slide
It's a long slow slide
Down