Laugh Clown Laugh Lyrics - Rick Masters And Spancil Hill

Alone and in an empty room 

that weighs of an unending gloom 

The placards on the street outside proclaim the hope 

my act provides 

I've worn this mask a thousand times, 

now serves to cover aging lines 

A careworn brow, a sagging chin, 

a cap to hide the hair, now thin 

The paint curves up to hide my frown, 

to fool those in another town 

I weep yet still pretend to be 

the comic that you came to see 

Yet in my head my love still sings to me... 

Laugh clown, laugh 

though your heart it breaks inside 

Let them see the hope you give, 

not the tears that you've cried 

May the strength the Lord provides you, 

take you through another night 

So laugh clown, laugh, and 

everything will be alright 

My true love rests below the earth, 

I'm now a husk, have lost my worth 

Was once a poet, deft and sly, (now) 

reduced to rhyming "pie" and "sky" 

So now for you the motions go, 

behind white face the great unknown 

Through candy floss and other treats, 

tomorrow my charade repeats 

I chose this life to make you smile, 

but my joy has been gone awhile 

Convince you with my charm and wit, 

don't let you know I'm tired of it 

Cause jesters have their feelings too, 

not always gay, sometimes blue 

Yet in my head my love still sings to me...