The Greatest Show On Earth

from Unbecoming by Missing Monica

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

£1 GBP or more
Buy the Full Digital Album

lyrics

Roll up, roll up for your last and only chance to see
The greatest show on Earth.
Hear children cry as the show leaves town
They know it won’t return.
The money man sits laughing
Watching as the world burns
And as global madness finds a new revival
The prophet writes the next verse (in the Bad News bible)

Life – we all belong here
Live and let live cos we all know
Now it’s time, time to start the healing
And take our place in the greatest show on Earth.

Come see the beasts, watch them play and recognise
Our most innocent selves.
Now see them die - make your choice, there’s a huge supply
As much as you can buy.
If we understood their thinking
And felt pain every time we hunted them
Do you think we’d realise, as life passes from our bright eyes,
We’re suffering for the greater good of humankind?

Life – we all belong here
Live and let live cos we all know
Now it’s time, time to start the healing
And take our place in the greatest show on Earth.

Can’t you hear the cries of Mother Earth calling, calling?
Can’t you see the tears of Mother Earth falling, falling?

Clinging to our creature comforts
Using precious resources as the means to destroy us.
Why does human wanting mean human taking?
We must learn the way of simply human being.
The countdown to annihilation,
The curtain call for all creation,
The closing scene to end everything,
The final act has begun
But the show must go on.

Can’t you hear the cries of Mother Earth calling, calling?
Can’t you see the tears of Mother Earth falling, falling?

We all belong here
Live and let live and share the Earth
Now it’s time to take our place in what might be
The greatest show in the universe!

credits

from Unbecoming, released September 29, 2023

license

about

Missing Monica Plymouth, UK

contact / help

Contact Missing Monica

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Missing Monica, you may also like:

Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO
by Juliana Hatfield

It’s a match made in heaven: Juliana Hatfield tackles the classic ELO catalog on a road that leads to power pop bliss. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 18, 2023
go to album
The Songs & Tales of Airoea – Book III
by The Chronicles of Father Robin

featured on Bandcamp Radio Mar 15, 2024
go to album
Elegy
by LAKEMAN

The two epic tracks on the latest from BC group Lakeman are mind-melters, opening slow and pensive before erupting into near-doom metal. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 4, 2022
go to album
Mind Bahn
by Jouis

The spirit of the Canterbury scene is alive and well across this groovy, harmonic psychedelic suite. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 10, 2019
go to album
Panorama
by La Dispute

The post-hardcore band’s latest is a reflection on time, memory, death, and grief—and is their dreamiest material to date. Bandcamp Album of the Day Mar 22, 2019
go to album
Sunset World
by Sun Kin

Joined by members of Ava Luna, Plum, and Cheekface, the L.A. polymath transmutes apocalyptic anxiety into plush, cinematic indie pop. Bandcamp New & Notable May 9, 2024
go to album
no place that feels like
by Ellis

Another devastatingly beautiful batch of indie rock confessionals from Ontario singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Linnea Siggelkow. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 28, 2024
go to album