ฟังเพลงBlondin Makes An Omelette

Blondin Makes An Omelette - Gareth Liddiard

It seems we're all in for a treat

Staring up out of the street

And you can tell

That Joe is really glad

That he came

Though downwind of him trails

A fog of alcohol

He fails to do

His best to be indifferent

All the same

'Cause there ain't no shaking the smell

Like there ain't no shaking the spell

As Blondin Wirewalker

Braves the screams

Well Joe is obviously impressed

Though he has something to confess

Above the sound of ten thousand creaking

Necks all craned

Joe says

Alone amongst the beasts and freaks

I dreamed of tightrope walking

While I tended Blondin's

Percherons and trailers

I'd see him

Training in the evening

There was no point trying to speak

You see I doubted that he'd have

Time for the strangers

Who'd be there

Hoisting the bis big tents

Be there spying him from their naves

Staring down on them

Like batshit in a cave

Well we hardly even met but see

I worked for him I thought I'd

Fill the space he left

But no I was naive

Just another sideshow slow I thought

He knew something I don't

But it would seem

All these Wirewalkers have

Is just the means

To make you feel so bad

Man no one

Cared for him at all

Until he crossed Niagara Falls

So you'd all feel

A little lower down the scale

And then his fame shot straight and fast

Right through a gloomy narrow pass

He chanced through darkness

Lightning storms

And into day

But I ain't here because he's tall

I'm only here to see him fall

If I get on the wagon now

It'll only be to run him down

It seems we're

All in for a treat

Staring up out of the street

And you can smell

That Joe's been drinking

On his breath

And then the clouds part overhead

And I make out a silhouette

Though I'm staring up

Through a trapdoor

And I'm waiting to be fed