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This is the story of Hyacinthe and the contortionist

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Ain't always easy to do

(Chapter one)

Hyacinthe was born of the circus

She was raised telling the fortunes of all

Her daddy tamed lions

Said he wasn't scared of dying

But he was scared to death of her crystal ball

She'd say : "you're caging up the king of the jungle, daddy

And that behavior, it never ends well"

She saw there'd come a time

When the lions would dine on him

And she couldn't bring him back with no spell

And he would tease the crowd

"Step back, if they're hungry, they'll attack"

"Ain't that life"

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Ain't always easy to do

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(Chapter two)

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She started waking up sweaty in terror

Dreaming blood on the walls every night

She'd seen whole damn scene

Every roar, every scream

Those lions licked up every drop of his light

No, she didn't do well with her daddy gone

The fortunes got darker each day

She'd be looking at a palm

See everything that could go wrong

And the nightmares they weren't going away

That's when she'd say

"Step back, if they're hungry, they'll attack"

"Ain't that life"

Step back for a moment

Take an alternate view

Step back for a moment

Ain't always easy to do

It was pissing rain outside of Denton

Her pain seemed never ending

A broken life, she had no friends

In those lions and they were whispering to her

"C'mon kid, come a lil' closer"

She stuck her neck into that lion cage

She smelled their breath all hot with rage

She recoiled screaming "I've gone too far"

But her head got stuck between those bars

And that's it, that's the last thing she remembers

Karloff the contortionist

Had a body type you couldn't miss

Skinny like a hose

Always walking on his hands (Boop, boop, boop)

But he saw eye to eye with Hyacinthe

Upside down and outside in

They talked about the sacrifice

A circus life demands

They kissed in the elephant's cage

They touched knees in the petting zoo hay

He could pop out his elbows

But his head was on straight

He'd put his face between his legs and say

Step back, step back

Step back, step back

Step back

Step back for a moment

Take an alternate view

Step back for a moment

Ain't always easy to do

Step back, step back

Step back, step back

This has been the story

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Of Hyacinthe and the contortionist

Step back, step back

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