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Stephen Sondheim - Send In The Clowns Lyrics
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Isn't it rich?
Are we a pair?
Me here at last on the ground,
You in mid-air.
Send in the clowns.
Isn't it bliss?
Don't you approve?
One who keeps tearing around,
One who can't move.
Where are the clowns?
Send in the clowns.
Just when I'd stopped
Opening doors,
Finally knowing
The one that I wanted was yours,
Making my entrance again
With my usual flair,
Sure of my lines,
No one is there.
Don't you love farce?
My fault, I fear.
I thought that you'd want what I want -
Sorry, my dear.
But where are the clowns?
There ought to be clowns.
Quick, send in the clowns.
What a surprise.
Who could foresee
I'd come to feel about you
What you'd felt about me?
Why only now when i see
That you'd drifted away?
What a surprise.
What a cliché.
Isn't it rich?
Isn't it queer?
Losing my timing this late
In my career?
And where are the clowns?
Quick, send in the clowns.
Don't bother - they're here.
 lyrics submitted by Christina lyrics corrected by person on 15-08-2007 |
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24-10-2004 12:24 ChrisSusi | 
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| The song is about a couple who have been together for a while. One has an affair and realizes that they truly wish to be with the other but the other has left. Hence the irony, ha ha joke is on them - now where are the clowns? | | 09-01-2005 23:13 hecarriesme |
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| Actually, both of you are kind of right in a way. It is literally about an acrobat who dies on stage in the circus, as the name implies. To "send in the clowns" was a circus practice when something very bad happened - like someone fell off the high wire and died. So that's what it's about literally.
Yes, it's symbolic. Underneath the surface, it's about a couple whose relationship is falling apart and they've both hurt each other in many ways. So he keeps imploring, "Send in the clowns, send in the clowns," because it's a major tragedy to them, equivalent to a death in the circus.
That's pretty much what it means, tho it's pretty open to interpretation. | | 14-03-2005 18:00 nazjamo |
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I am going to sing this song in our school concert. I think it's a great song to sing!!!!!!  | | 16-06-2007 05:26 hecarriesme |
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I was finally able to actually hear this song... it's a great song. | | 09-05-2009 21:57 jaysee |
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