Long Slow Slide

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The lights are bright in the circus  The geeks and the freaks all light cigarettes  And laugh at your misery  While the weight 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  And 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  Inside my heart a war is raging  In regions still untamed  The worst fear I can imagine  Is for the mystery to be named  For the mystery to be named It's a long slow slide  It's a long slow slide  It's a long slow slide  It's a long slow slide  It's a long slow slide  It's a long slow slide...down

Long Slow Slide Written by Jewel Produced by Rob Cavallo and Jewel Recorded Recorded by Doug McKean at El Dorado Studios, Burbank, CA Albums Goodbye Alice in Wonderland, 2006 Singles Standing Still (UK Single), 2002 Again and Again (Australian Single), 2006 Videos Jewel: The Essential Live Songbook, 2008 Length 3:48      (38 known performances)