Twelve Year Circus Lyrics - Good Riddance

it was a day like any other 

my son he turned to me and said 

father wherever did we go so wrong 

i thought it over for a minute and said 

son for twelve years 

there was a circus 

sometimes i want to dream my life away 

and other times it all seems wrong 

still other days i want to throw my life away 

that's when i know i don't belong 

now when i'm down some people ask me 

just when and where my luck did change 

i smile and say the eighties broke my spirit 

'cause when the circus came to town 

i was in it's way