[The Glass Circle] [ Verse 1 ] The iron bars are pulled away from subterranean floors. They drag him out into the light to tell him what’s in store. He wears the plastic suit so tight, decontamination white. Through snowy Philadelphia in the middle of the night. [ Pre-Chorus 1 ] The clock is ticking backward as the numbers start to bleed. They plant the wire in the brain and sow the metal seed. [ Chorus 1 ] The hands move on the dial but they never lead away. The shadow of tomorrow follows every yesterday. We run toward the exit but the door is always barred. The end was all decided long before we played a card. [ Verse 2 ] Inside the walls of white and gray he shouts to tell the truth. He begs Kathryn Railly for the proof from his lost youth. Jeffrey Goines is laughing while the medicine goes down. The madness of the plague to come is wearing every crown. [ Pre-Chorus 2 ] The static on the radio is screaming out a name. The world is just a picture frame that’s going up in flame. [ Chorus 2 ] Fate is just a tether that keeps pulling on the chain. The logic of the cycle is the source of all the pain. There is no changing weather when the storm is clearly known. The future is a monument that’s carved in heavy stone. [Instrumental Break - Melodic Piano Solo and Warm Strings] [ Bridge 1 ] Red paint forms the twelve-monkey symbol on the wall. A warning of the virus that is coming for them all. Across the airport floor he sees the child he used to be. Their eyes have met at last to set the circle free. [ Verse 3 ] The grainy phone call crackles from the static on the wire. He's searching for the source before the city is on fire. The snow is falling softly on the statues in the square. The ghosts of all the living ones are breathing in the air. [ Pre-Chorus 3 ] The countdown starts to rattle like a cage against the bone. The king is on his counting stool and sitting all alone. [ Chorus 3 ] We think we have a choice until the ending meets the start. The clockwork of the universe is tearing us apart. No matter how we struggle or how loudly we might scream. We wake up in the middle of a cold and waking dream. [ Bridge 2 ] The bullet finds its target while the woman starts to cry. The boy can only watch the man who’s destined now to die. The loop is closed and locked again, the logic is complete. The winner and the loser are the same man in the street. [ Verse 4 ] Bright yellow shirt and blond hair wig, he wears them as a mask. To finish what the scientists have set him as a task. He pushes through the terminal to reach the boarding gate. While Kathryn Railly realizes it is far too late. [ Pre-Chorus 4 ] The past is not a memory, it's a place that we can touch. The weight of what is coming is becoming far too much. [ Final Chorus ] The circle is unbreakable, the path is always clear. The destiny we’re fleeing is the only thing that’s here. It happens how it happened and it happens once again. The end was written long ago by someone else’s pen. [ Outro ] The child walks to the car and stares into the distance. Silence is the answer to his desperate resistance. Round and round it goes. The only way it knows.
