Time Moves Slow (For Lillian Leitzel)

Time moves slow
So slow
In the spotlight
Suspended in that Copenhagen night
I'm never letting go
Forever I'll be falling through
There's nothing I can do
But hold on and let the Earth come to me
I'm falling but time sets me free
And I'm just another satellite
Abandoned by the frozen wheel of gravity
And critical velocity
Is watching from the balcony

Time (I'm falling through)
Time (nothing I can do)
Time moves slow

Barnum's canvas palace
Valencia Hall
Ziegfeld's at midnight
Lillian Leitzel played them all
Before the fall
(time moves slow)
The Queen of the big top
(time moves slow)
And Alfredo her king
(time moves slow)
They were young and free from fear
Above the center ring
Where you can hear the choir sing
(time moves slow)
Blown away like thistledown
(time moves slow)
In the stratosphere of dreams
(time moves slow)
We can stop this wheel turning
'Cause don't you know, time
Is not what it seems

Time (I'm falling through)
Time (nothing I can do)
Time moves slow

Time moves slow, so slow
Time moves slowly by
I'm never coming down
No, I'm never coming down
From this corner of the stratosphere

Time (I'm falling through)
Time (nothing I can do)
Time moves slow
So spare me this sliver of the stratosphere
Time (I'm never coming down)
Time (I'm never coming down)
Time moves slow