Released: June 24, 2013
Songwriter: Don Henry Phillip Coleman
Producer: Chuck Ainlay Glenn Worf Frank Liddell
[Verse 1]
Ilsa was an acrobat who went and fell in love with that
Horatio the human cannonball
A wedding 'neath the big top tent with barkers clowns and elephants
Sideshow family oddities and all
The dog-faced boy howled out with joy
As the tattooed lady was crying
[Chorus]
Ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning
It takes all kinds of kinds
[Verse 2]
Thomas was a congressman with closets full of skeletons
And dresses that he wore on Friday nights
Phyllis was a pharmacist, a dab of that, a pinch of this
Concocted to suppress her appetite
When the children were fiddling she'd slip 'em some Ritalin
And wait for Thomasina to arrive
[Chorus]
'Cause ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning
It takes all kinds of kinds
All kinds of kinds
[Verse 3]
When I play this old guitar from children's shows to smoky bars
I take a break and think about the past
When I stood up in geometry and everybody stared at me
And I tossed my test into the trash
I scratched off my number while hitching out under
That bush league population sign
[Chorus]
Ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning
It takes all kinds of kinds
[Bridge]
Now some point a finger and let ignorance linger
If they'd look in the mirror they'd find
[Chorus]
That ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning
It takes all kinds of kinds
All kinds of kinds
All kinds of kinds
[Outro]
Yeah, yeah, ooh
Oh yeah
Ilsa was an acrobat who went and fell in love with that
Horatio the human cannonball
A wedding 'neath the big top tent with barkers clowns and elephants
Sideshow family oddities and all
The dog-faced boy howled out with joy
As the tattooed lady was crying
[Chorus]
Ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning
It takes all kinds of kinds
[Verse 2]
Thomas was a congressman with closets full of skeletons
And dresses that he wore on Friday nights
Phyllis was a pharmacist, a dab of that, a pinch of this
Concocted to suppress her appetite
When the children were fiddling she'd slip 'em some Ritalin
And wait for Thomasina to arrive
[Chorus]
'Cause ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning
It takes all kinds of kinds
All kinds of kinds
[Verse 3]
When I play this old guitar from children's shows to smoky bars
I take a break and think about the past
When I stood up in geometry and everybody stared at me
And I tossed my test into the trash
I scratched off my number while hitching out under
That bush league population sign
[Chorus]
Ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning
It takes all kinds of kinds
[Bridge]
Now some point a finger and let ignorance linger
If they'd look in the mirror they'd find
[Chorus]
That ever since the beginning to keep the world spinning
It takes all kinds of kinds
All kinds of kinds
All kinds of kinds
[Outro]
Yeah, yeah, ooh
Oh yeah
more tracks from the album
From the album
- Four the Record (2011)
Miranda Lambert popular songs
- Mama’s Broken Heart
- Tin Man
- Vice
- Little Red Wagon
- Somethin’ Bad
- Bluebird
- The House That Built Me
- Over You
- Runnin’ Just in Case
- Settling Down
- We Should Be Friends
- Gunpowder & Lead
- Tequila Does
- Highway Vagabond
- You Wouldn’t Know Me
- To Learn Her
- Pushin’ Time
- Kerosene
- Keeper of the Flame
- It All Comes Out in the Wash
- Things That Break
- Ugly Lights
- Only Prettier
- Use My Heart