Well there once was a Star Showman
Who had a pretty wife
He had two kids, one named Sam, the other lived a short life
And this man worked his whole life and though he loved his son
When asked if he loved his life he took on the road and run

He was a man with a life
He had a child and wife
The sun’s warmth rested him goodnight
Now the moon is his light and his friend is his bike
Will you sleep the day to jump the sin?
Or awake with birds and hum the hymn
As the darkness hides what he’d like to bring
I’d picture him
I’d see him as
I’d picture him
I’d see him as
A Star Showman
A Star Showman
The Star Showman

The man was in a draw for most of the time
He was running from the law and trying to make a dime
The wife no better, a lover of sin,
She gets herself together and dances and strips
While her husband makes his rusty dime
She makes ten shiny pennies without whimper or whine
And she says to her new lover, as she looks in the sky,
“That star took my light
Brought it up, but it’s too bright
Blindness is loving what you delight
Loving the impossible where you cannot fight
I never used to ask him where’d he lived or where he’d been
They say he’s a diamond smuggler, and drugs of course
They say he’s a modern outlaw, but I still have remorse





He was a man with a life
He had a child and wife
The past he wished to be run by
So, finding ease in the night sky
Meant he didn’t have to go back to the start,
Was there happiness if it killed his heart?
Imminence is absent from the death of The Star
Journeyers will not forget, though they still journey on far
I’d picture him
I’d see him as
I’d picture him
I’d see him as
A Star Showman
A Star Showman
The Showman
The Showman
The Star Showman

(Last Verse If There Is Time)
The lover switches on the news to her surprise
It’s a tragedy, the drowning, thirty years ago tonight
He says, “Don’t you have a kid of your own?”
She says, “Yes, I do, he lives up north in a stone hotel”
Outside she hears a murmur in the neighbor’s well
She falls the way down, breaks her ribs and yells,
A dead bunny lays, but she stays to feel the cell