Woman On the Wheel-Gretchen Peters

[ti:Woman On the Wheel] [ar:Gretchen Peters] [al:Hello Cruel World] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Woman On the Wheel - Gretchen Peters [00:02.02] [00:03.64] [00:05.77] [00:13.22]There's a man out here puts his head in the mouth of a crocodile [00:19.53]Puts the whole thing in takes it out and gives the crowd a great big smile [00:25.97]And they walk away with their illusions of safety safely intact [00:32.47]And they tell their little wide eyed kids it's only an act [00:39.15]There's a man out here throws knives at a wheel with a blindfold on [00:44.03] [00:45.77]And the wheel spins round and the knives bear down 'til they find their home [00:52.58]And I can feel the rush and the whoosh of every blade of steel [01:00.33]'Cause I am the woman on the wheel [01:06.14]Sometimes I get lonely sometimes I get scared but most times bored [01:12.65]Sometimes I ask God please God just show me just what's behind that door [01:19.27]As if God was Monty Hall and this was let's make a deal [01:22.71] [01:26.70]And I am the woman on the wheel [01:45.50]Had a sweet little baby in Coeur d'Alene he was an acrobat [01:52.20]Took me out on the wire man I never knew love could feel like that [01:58.89]But in the end he was a man who couldn't keep his feet on the ground too long [02:05.58]In the end it's just another high-wire act gone wrong [02:12.02]So it's on with the show and it's send in the clowns and the trapeze act [02:17.08] [02:18.87]And it's more of the same and it's less of a game than a cold hard fact [02:25.87]And most times it's better not to ask myself how I feel [02:32.43]I'm just the woman on the wheel [03:22.05]I know what you're thinkin' as the knives fly by and they find their mark [03:28.74]You're thinkin' one false move and it's a real bad day at the amusement park [03:35.30]You wouldn't wanna be me but you need me just the same [03:42.06]To remind you what you stand to lose and what you stand to gain [03:49.18]They say I've got a death wish yeah but I don't think that's true [03:55.68]As far as I can see it's less about me and more about you [04:02.18]You see it ain't your fears so much as what your fears reveal [04:06.00] [04:09.95]I'm just the woman on the wheel [04:14.46]