Noise du Jour: "Start Wearing Purple" by Gogol Bordello

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While not strictly a song about the circus, this is certainly the best 3:50 that Gogol Bordello ever produced. It is sheer, joyous madness, and would not be amiss backing a nine-clown competitive burlesque, complete with diesel-powered mechanical yaks, tambourine floozies, an enthusiastic immigrant crowd, and a SWAT team keeping time by battering down the door.

Start wearing purple wearing purple (da da da da da)
Start wearing purple for me now
All your sanity and wits they will all vanish
I promise, it's just a matter of time...

I've known you since you were a twenty, and I was twenty,
and thought that some years from now
a purple little little lady will be perfect
for dirty old and useless clown...