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The Acrobat

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Her mother's feet never left the ground Never dared to leave that little town That's why she ain't afraid of looking down But I bet it gets lonely up there in clouds When you're barely hanging on it's easy to let go And wait for the applause after the show Turns out the fortune teller doesn't even know How to land the highs and make it through the lows She's good at making herself smaller Good at flying, good at bending Been pretending for so long She forgets that she's pretending Breaking herself into pieces she's never gonna get back There goes the acrobat The circus ain't all its cracked up to be There's a cost to freedom, and God knows it ain't free She stares in the mirror hanging above the bathroom sink And wonders what she'd look like if she could breath She's good at making herself smaller Good at flying, good at bending Been pretending for so long She forgets that she's pretending Breaking herself into pieces she's never gonna get back There goes the acrobat Will she ever give up trying to catch the hand that catches her And stop bending for the world that never ever bends for her? She's good at making herself smaller Good at flying, good at bending Been pretending for so long She doesn't know why she's pretending She'd break every bone in her pretty body if love really worked like that Yeah, there goes the acrobat Yeah, I know the acrobat