Woman On the Wheel

Woman On the Wheel - Gretchen Peters Lyrics

There's a man out here puts his head in the mouth of a

crocodile

Puts the whole thing in, takes it out and gives the

crowd a great big smile

And they walk away with their illusions of safety

safely intact

And they tell their little wide eyed kids it's only an

act



There's a man out here throws knives at a target with a

blindfold on

And the wheel spins round and the knives bear down til

they find their home

And I can feel the rush and the whoosh of every blade

of steel

Cause I am the woman on the wheel



Sometimes i get lonely sometimes i get scared but most

times bored

Sometimes i ask god please god just show me just what's

behind that door

As if god was Monty Hall and this was Let's Make A Deal

And I am the woman on the wheel



Had a sweet little baby in Coeur D'Alene, he was an

acrobat

Took me out on the wire man i never knew love could

feel like that

But in the end he was a man who couldn't keep his feet

on the ground too long

In the end it's just another highwire act gone wrong



So it's on with the show and it's send in the clowns

and the trapeze act

And it's more of the same and it's less of a game than

a cold hard fact

And most times it's better not to ask myself how i feel

I'm just the woman on the wheel



I know what you're thinkin as the knives fly by and

they find their mark

You're thinkin one false move and it's a real bad day

at the amusement park

You wouldn't wanna be me but you need me just the same

To remind you what you stand to lose and what you stand

to gain



They say i've got a death wish yeah but I don't think

that's true

As far as i can see it's less about me and more about

you

You see it ain't your fears so much as what your fears

reveal

I'm just the woman on the wheel