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The Escape Artist

from The Disappearing Man (early demos) by Jahn Sood

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[Display No. 5] The Escape Artist.

JUMPING JACK
These stilts, they will keep me up high
Above the horses, the elephants, the tigers
And I’ll walk ‘round the ring every time I’m called to perform.

You know, I shiver every time I look down,
And I could’ve been a regular clown,
But I’m living up here ‘cause my fears on the ground are much greater.

I’m an escape artist walking over the crowds,
And these wobbly knees
They let me be free
Of everything bringing me down.
I’m a tightrope walker, a hundred feet in the air
The only place I am safe
From the big world of snakes,
I’ll never go down. I’m too scared.

I tried to be a tamer of cats,
But they hissed and they clawed and they scratched
So I banged at the cage, “Let me go, let me go, I’m too young.”

LLOYD and JACK
Then I drove a clown car for a bit,
JUMPING JACK
But it went so fast ‘round the pit
And the tires squealed every time I went ‘round the bend.
LLOYD and JACK
I said I’m not cut out for this job,
The circus is just one screaming mob.

JUMPING JACK: And I’m too scared of everything under the tent.

I’m an escape artist walking over the crowds,
And these wobbly knees
They let me be free
Of everything bringing me down.
I’m a tightrope walker, a hundred feet in the air
The only place I am safe
From the big world of snakes
I’ll never go down. I’m too scared.

The ringmaster gave me one last chance,
Said,

BELLOWS and JACK: “Enough of this song and dance kid,”

JUMPING JACK: The stilts and the rope were the only acts I hadn’t tried.

Said, “If

HARVEY and JACK: you’re gonna stay with the show,
Then you’d better get with the flow,”

JUMPIG JACK: So I clenched my fists, closed my eyes, up the rope I climbed.

Now,
I’m an escape artist walking over the crowds,
And these wobbly knees
They let me be free
Of everything bringing me down.
I’m a tightrope walker, a hundred feet in the air
The only place I am safe
From the big world of snakes.
I’ll never go down. I’m too scared.

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from The Disappearing Man (early demos), released February 21, 2009
Jack Davidson, drums.
Jahn Sood, vocals, acoustic and electric guitars, bass.

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Jahn Sood is a songwriter, impresario and colored-pencil wielder who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

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