In the clown asylum They have locked us away For a million years Here, here will you stay We stay inside our cages With our make-up bags And our frilly shirts Our hopes and dark dreams Taped to the wall With the window, next, next to the bars I sometimes look outside And see the birds Tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet tweeting Into the window Never shall I pull you again from my hat, bird! But we are wild here in the clown asylum The clown asylum, an asylum for clowns Will we ever laugh again? I ask you, I ask you Come over here, you, you, come over here! Why don't you tell me How I'm supposed to turn this balloon into a giraffe? Nurse fuckity-fuck You take the pills to sleep! You old wench Don't you, don't you threaten my time In the couryard with the young bunnies The little rabbits and the daffodils Oh, there's Howard Howard's a human duck Playing chess against himself Whaddya have to day about that, Chubby? You circus people can kiss my whole ass I stay hidden from the world In the clown asylum In the clown, in the clown, in the clown asylum We're in the clown, we're in the clown asylum We're in the clown, we're in the clown asylum We're in the clown, we're in the clown asylum