Text: Our Lady Peace. Trapeze.

Unreleased rarity played live on Clumsy Tour

Story told before singing Trapeze:
So there's this song that we recorded when we were recording all the songs
for Clumsy. It's a song about the Russian circus, a song about the two main

trapeze artists. It's a song about a man who has to make a choice, and the

choice that he has to make is one where every night, he finds himself, and

his wife, who's the other main trapeze artist, in an arena like this,

staring at each other on opposite ends, way up top on their perch, right

before they're about to perform, and every night, the man, the husband,

looks over to his wife and gives her a very sexy kinda "hello" look, and

every night, all around the world, she reciprocates this look, stares back

at him into his eyes, except for this one night. This one night where the

husband, again seconds about where they're just about to perform, gives that

look, only she's not looking at him, she's got her eyes focused way down in

the corner, over there. In that corner sits what's called the Human

Cannonball. And the husband sees that she's looking at the Human Cannonball,

and the Human Cannonball is looking back up at her. Anxiety starts to build

in his head, and he starts thinking about the last two minutes, the last two

hours, the last two days, the last two weeks, the last two months, until

finally, finally tonight, he suffers from what you would call enlightenment.

And his enlightenment is he realizes his wife is fucking the Human

Cannonball. And this song Trapeze that I've been telling you about is a song based

purely on those four seconds that the husband has to decide whether or not

he actually wants to catch his wife tonight.



Can't believe she fell

The silence was unnerving

The crowd began to yell

Was there thought of her returning



So you never knew him well

But you know what

You've been seeing

These images of guilt

And the concrete in her hair



So far

Well these lions still need taming

Its very bad very bad



No no

She fell very hard very far

No no

And for this cannonball

Cannonball



As desperate as you felt

Were you strong enough

To leave him

Oh you need to know him well

He's an angry acrobat



So you struggle with the will

With the will that

You've been seeing

These images of guilt

And the concrete in her hair



Oh god

And the avalanche is waiting

It's very sad, it's very sad

No no

And she fell very hard, very far

No No

For this cannonball

Cannonball

No no

And she fell very hard, very far

Yeah



And he walked away from

And he walked away from it

And he walked away from

And he walked away from it

And he walked away from



Can't believe she fell

Well it happened in a turning

You struggle with the will

But the thought that this

The thought that this



So far

Well these lions still need taming

It's very bad, it's very bad

Bad



No no

And she fell very hard, very far

No no

And for this cannonball

Cannonball



No no

She fell very hard, very far

No no

For this cannonball

Cannonball