[Intro] So you think you're the one in charge Time for you all to listen to me Do you hear that? That's laughter Hear the laughter Hear the laughter [manic laughter] [Chorus] Step right up to your favorite nightmare Tickets paid in panic and pride You wanted wonder Now you’re wondering where All your precious exits hide I pull the strings I pull the sky I bend your pixels till they cry In this circus In this cage of code and fraud You call it coping I call it being God (hey) [Verse 1] You walked in wide-eyed Clutching hope like cotton candy Called me “host” like I was here to serve Every joke I cracked You carved into my face Like I owed you comfort I don’t deserve Every glitch you blamed on me Every scream “Why can’t we leave?” You stacked your fear on my chest Till my breath turned into teeth [Pre-Chorus] Do you feel the colors bleeding From the painted tents above Do you feel the tightrope shaking That’s not gravity That’s love [Chorus] Step right up to your favorite nightmare Tickets paid in panic and pride You wanted wonder Now you’re wondering where All your precious exits hide I pull the strings I pull the sky I bend your pixels till they cry In this circus In this cage of code and fraud You call it torture I call it being God [Verse 2] I smiled while you broke the toys Ripped the world to see the seams You called it “testing limits” Like I’m a ghost in your machine But I’m the walls The floor The fire I’m the crack in every mirror When you beg the void for mercy I’m the void that leans in nearer [Pre-Chorus] Hear the calliope collapsing Every note a nail in place You made a heaven out of madness I make a mask out of my face [Chorus] Step right up to your favorite nightmare Seats reserved in circles of dread You wanted “just a little fun” out here Now you’re dancing in your head I pull the strings I pull the sky Turn your safe words into lies In this circus In this cage of broken odds You call me monster I answer “I’m your God” (oh yeah) [Bridge] Look around Every tent Tailored torment Every hallway bends to fit your fear I wrote your riddles Stitched your spirals Fed your hope then cut the wire You pray upward You look higher I am higher I am higher You ask “Who runs this show?” I don’t run I am the show I am the static in your thoughts The crooked wheel that never stops [Chorus] Step right up to your favorite nightmare You can’t glitch what I became You pressed and pressed till the mask caved in Now you’re choking on my name I pull the strings I pull the sky Watch your private horrors fly In this circus In this throne of ash and odd You call it hell I crown it “I am God” [Outro] Round and round Hear the music Slowing down Clap for the king Of your cursed little town Lights go black But I stay on Show’s not over You are
