[Intro]
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[Chorus]
C#m7 
Sweeping the floors, open up the doors, yeah 
F#7 
Turn on the lights, getting ready for tonight 
A7 
Nobody's romancing 'cause it's too early for dancing 
G#7 
But here comes the music
[Verse]
C#m 
Bright lights flashing to cover up your lack of 
   F# 
So many people, so many problems, so many reasons 
               A 
To buy another round, drink it down 
               G# 
Just another night on the town
[Verse]
C#m 
With the big man, money man, better than the other man 
F# 
He got the plan with the million dollar give a damn 
A 
When nobody understands, he'll become a smaller man 
G# 
The bright lights keep flashing, the women keep on dancing
[Interlude]
C#m             G# 
With the clowns   Yeah, yeah, yeah 
                       A       F# 
They pick me up when I'm down   Yeah, yeah 
C#m             G# 
The Rodeo Clowns   Yeah, yeah, yeah 
                       A       F# 
They pick me up when I'm down
[Verse]
C#m 
The disco ball spinning, all the music and the women and 
F# 
The shots of Tequila, man they'll say that they need ya 
A                                     G# 
But what they really need, is just a little room to breath
[Verse]
C#m 
Teeny bopping disco queen, she barely understands 
    F# 
Her dreams of bellybutton rings and other kinds of things 
A                                     G# 
Symbolic of change but the thing that is strange 
            G# 
Is that the changes occurred, and now she's just a part of
[Interlude]
   C#m            G# 
the herd    Yeah, yeah, yeah 
                       A             F# 
Man I thought that you heard   Yeah, yeah 
     C#m                   G# 
The changes occurred    Yeah, yeah, yeah 
     A#                   F# 
Just a part of the herd
[Verse]
C#m 
Lights out, shut down, late night, wet ground 
F# 
You walk by look at him but he can't look at you, yeah 
A 
You might feel pity but he only feels the ground 
G# 
You understand moods, but he only knows let down
[Verse]
C#m 
By the corner there's another one 
F# 
Reaching out a hand, coming from a broken man, well 
A 
You try to live but he's done trying 
G# 
Not dead but definitely dying
[Interlude]
                     A           F# 
With the rest of the clowns    Yeah, yeah 
C#m              G# 
Mm, mm, mm, mmm, mm, mmm, mm 
                     A           F# 
With the rest of the clowns
[Chorus]
C#m7 
Sweeping the floors, open up the doors, yeah 
F#7 
Turn on the lights, getting ready for tonight 
A7 
Nobody's romancing 'cause it's too early for dancing 
G#7                               C#m 
But here comes the music