Your grand dad left ome for the circus.

He was young just like me, with hopes to explore

He married a girl in Virginia

She could swing the trapeze; they could sleep on the floor



Your mother was born in December

On the one sunny day that winter gave up

She had warm smmer eyes that flickered like fire flys

when she stared at the world



so why do you leave these stories unfinished

my cheshire cat with tears in her eyes?

Why do you look when you've already found me?

What did you find that could leave you walking by?



She was raised in a new england village

then she moved to LA with her firefly stare

and you loved sunset strip when it sparkled,

you grew up and you sparkled but why won't you care.



so why do you leave these stories unfinished

my cheshire cat with tears in her eyes?

Why do you look when you've already found me?

What did you find that could leave you walking by?



These nights I get high just from breathing

when I lie here with you, I'm sure that I'm real

like that firework over the freeway

I could stay here all day but thats not how you feel



So why do you leave there questions unanswered?

The circus awaits and you're already gone.

my cheshire cat doorstop with fear in her smile

what makes it so easy for you to be walking by?



and what did I do that you can't seem to want me

why do we lie here and whisper goodbyes?

Where can I go that your pictures won't haunt me

what makes it so easy for you to be walking by