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A circus is a company of performers that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other object manipulation and stunt-oriented artists. The term 'circus' also describes the performance which has followed various formats through its 150-year modern history. Philip Astley is credited with being the 'father' of the modern circus when he opened the first circus in 1768 in England. Early circuses were almost exclusively demonstrations of equestrian skills with a few other types of acts to link the horsemanship performances. Performances developed significantly through the next fifty years, with large scale theatrical battle reenactments becoming a significant feature. The 'traditional' format, whereby a ringmaster introduces a varied selection of acts that mostly perform choreographed acts to traditional music, developed in the latter part of 19th century and continued almost universally to be the main style of circus up until the 1970s.
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A town is a human settlement larger than a village but smaller than a city. The size definition for what constitutes a "town" varies considerably in different parts of the world.
The word town shares an origin with the German word Stadt, the Dutch word tuin, and the Old Norse tun. The German word Zaun comes closest to the original meaning of the word: a fence of any material. An early borrowing from Celtic *dunom (cf. Old Irish dun, Welsh din "fortress, fortified place, camp," dinas "city;"
In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, more specifically those of the wealthy, which had a high fence or a wall around them (like the garden of palace Het Loo in Apeldoorn, which was the example for the privy garden of William and Mary at Hampton Court). In Old Norse tun means a (grassy) place between farmhouses, and is still used in a similar meaning in modern Norwegian.
Everytime I see mud on your face
I know you're coming back from that place
Where the wolves make a circle around you
Now it's time to let my love surround you
'Cause you're coming back from a circus town
Where they never let you laugh
You're coming back from a circus town
Where they split your head in half
You said 'Catch me I'm falling,
catch me I'm falling, catch me
I'm falling down dead'
Don't want to see your eyes closed behind the curtains
Don't want to feel your feet cold for certain
Don't want to look at you lost in your coffin
Better stop your search then, for a permanent grin
'Cause you're coming back from a circus town
Where they never let you laugh
You're coming back from a circus town
Where they split your head in half
You said 'Catch me I'm falling,
Catch me I'm falling
Catch me I'm falling down dead'
All your trials will soon be over
All your trials will soon be over
So they put a canon right into your mouth
They lit the match and your brains flew south
You can take my arms and jump down from that train
Destination straight down the drain
'Cause you're coming back from a circus town
Where they never let you laugh
And coming back from a circus town
Where they split your head in half
You said 'Catch me I'm falling,
Catch me I'm falling
Catch me I'm falling down dead'
And you said 'Catch me I'm falling,
Catch me I'm falling