
[Intro: Sweet music box suddenly corrupted] ā«āŖā« Ring around the static Ring around the void Ring around the madness (Male whispers: "let the carnival begin") [Verse 1: Female lead with manic male echoes] The mirror shows three-no-four-no-FIVE! ("count them ALL!") Sometimes I'm "me" but sometimes "WE" ("ALL OF US!") ā” Who's running this fun-house tonight? ā” (Male: "EVERYONE! NO ONE! SOMEONE!") Through the āāāā carnival maze āāāā (Male: "round and round and ROUND WE GO!") [Pre-Chorus: Twisted polka rhythm] Tick! Tock! SMASH the clock! "It's FINE, we're FINE" (are we F-F-FINE?) ā«āŖā« Mother Goose has lost her mind ā«āŖā« (The radio plays nursery SCREAMS) One! Two! Coming for you! Three! Four! Breaking down the door! [System Error: Childhood.exe corrupted] [Chorus: Unhinged waltz] The walls are BREATHING... ("INHALE!") Time keeps [SKIPPING {FORWARD} BACK] ("EXHALE!") āāāā Reality spins and twirls āāāā (Which carousel is real?) ALL MIRRORS SHOWING TRUTH NO MIRRORS SHOWING TRUTH āāāā TRUTH IS A FUNHOUSE āāāā [Bridge 1: Carnival frequencies] Voice 1: "Step right up!" Voice 2: "RUN AWAY!" Voice 3: "ā«āŖā« la la SCREAM ā«āŖā«" Voice 4: "EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY!" Voice 5: "shhhhDEATHhhhhh..." (All voices dancing polka) ā” EMERGENCY MELTDOWN ā” [Verse 2: Broken music box duet] Yesterday I was a paper doll ("FOLD HER UP!") Tomorrow I might be porcelain ("BREAK HER DOWN!") āāāā The circus speaks in tongues āāāā Through the āāāā mirror maze āāāā Each reflection a different dance Each fracture a different song (Broadcasting live from the BIG TOP) [Polka Breakdown] ERROR: sanity.exe has stopped responding Would you like to: [DANCE] [SCREAM] [SHATTER] ā” All rides running simultaneously ā” Round and round and Round and round and Round and SNAP! [Bridge 2: Twisted nursery rhyme] "Take your medicine" says the mirror "Count the reflections backwards" (Male: "THEY MULTIPLY!") The carousel whispers secrets The organ grinder knows The clowns are watching ( We're all frequencies) [Final Chorus: Reality carnival] We are [I am {they are} (we're NEVER)] Here and there and EVERYWHERE Time is āāāā dancing āāāā dying (Which show is today anyway?) Through the circus of minds Each mirror its own carnival Each crack its own circus ā” DANCING ON ALL FREQUENCIES ā” [Breakdown: Maximum carnival chaos] āāāā FUNHOUSE EMERGENCY āāāā This is not a circus This is not not a circus This might be YOUR circus (Reality status: DANCING) āāāā CARNIVAL COLLAPSE āāāā [Outro: Music box destruction] ā«āŖā« Round and round... āāāā or up and down? āāāā ā” ALL AT ONCE ā” (The carousel never stops...) (or never started...) (or both...) [Static waltzes with silence] [Lullabies become screams] [Screams become songs] [Songs become static] (Final performance: ENCORE) ā” CURTAIN FALL ā”