Woman On The Wheel Lyrics

Gretchen Peters Woman On The Wheel

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