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Burn the Circus

by Tardigrade Inferno

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1.
It's an absurdity, it's his fault It was just an innocent somersault With hands tied and torn out hair Down my magnificent office stairs I just came and saw this scene - He was drinking gasoline, Then he put himself on fire Right before it, he was fired Hope you die, I hope you would But I don't want to ruin the mood Can you see with your own heart How the audience love this part When we're on the stage You will hear our cry Trapped inside the cage Hoping you would die Ringmaster, ringmaster My life is a disaster Forgive me, it’s over Ringmaster has to die So you want me to step down? Be replaced by a random clown? And the answer’s on the surface Only I can run this circus Who can run it if not me? We don’t need uncertainties Clowns and jugglers will do fine Suit yourselves after I die When we're on the stage You will hear our cry Trapped inside the cage Hoping you would die Ringmaster, ringmaster My life is a disaster Forgive me, it’s over Ringmaster has to die Hope I die? I never will The circus will burn, I’ll be standing still Can you see with your own heart Now we are ready for the final part It's an absurdity, it's not my fault Half of the circus just died of cold I heard that you love me here less and less So I’ve prepared for you something else First time on the stage Fighting for their lives Locked inside the cage What will they contrive To survive? Ringmaster, ringmaster My life is a mess And every time I close my eyes I hope it would hurt less And we’ve been trapped here for some time It feels like thousand years And every time I close my eyes I hope you disappear Please just die When we're on the stage You will hear our cry Trapped inside the cage Hoping you would die Ringmaster, ringmaster My life is a disaster Forgive me, it’s over Ringmaster has to die
2.
My clockwork is supreme It is Turing complete It's better than the flesh Because the bodies tend to bleed I'm making a machine With cog and torsion spring A human-like construction that can Talk, and dream, and feel, and think Everything we know Leads us to the next The mind is the contraption That has grown too complex If only I could make A god from the machine Multiply complexity until It gains form and will First, there was the God Almighty From the God came Soul Eternal Then the Soul commanded body Body made the cog From the cog I'll make a body With the spring I'll make a mind When the mind grows almighty Then I'll make the Clockwork God I’m spending days and nights on my impossible invention I left my mind open for divine intervention While artificial humans will be sure someone’s focus For me, it’s but a step to my divine magnum opus The forward march of science gives us all that it can bring But all that I will need is just a chain, a cog, a spring And while the copper parts grow exponentially in size I fear there is one thing that I have yet to realize First, there was the God Almighty From the God came Soul Eternal Then the Soul commanded body Body made the cog From the cog I'll make a body With the spring I'll make a mind When the mind grows almighty Then I'll make the Clockwork God Cos’ everything miraculous Can be expressed with calculus Got nothing but my sweat and blood To reverse engineer the God But I’ve spent years with no success There’s no solution, it makes no sense A blank space sits amidst my scripts I’ve tried it all, but nothing fits What if there’s no god almighty? And there is no soul eternal? There is brain and there is body And there is a cog From the cog I made a body With the spring I made a mind Will the mind grow almighty And become a god? I need more parts to make a god Than there are atoms in the world There is less copper than I need My perfect vision is incomplete The revelation came to me The God is but a fantasy There is no God, the image's fake The only God - the one we make First, there is no god almighty And there is no soul eternal There is brain and there is body And there is a cog From the cog I made a body With the spring I made a mind There is nothing that's almighty So the mind prays… To the Clockwork God
3.
Rats 03:13
Big Rat City is in fear Rats began to disappear Midnight killer leaves no trails - Tears out whiskers, cuts off tails The world famous rat detective Has already took the case Photos taken, dots connected He is pretty sure it was rats! Dying screams are heard at night On the streets of broken lights Rat fatale is found dead Small bite marks are on her head The world famous rat detective Has already took the case Photos taken, dots connected He is pretty sure it was rats! Running, running, chasing tails He picked up a faint scent And he found the darkest corner And he’s ready to descent Take a look Under the floor Behind the walls And you will find Rats! Rats! Rats! Rats! Rats! Running, running, chasing tails Now you sure got all the facts You have found your Midnight killer You’ve discovered fractal rats Even smaller Even faster There’s no ending And no master Smaller rats have smaller rats A never-ending fractal figure If it truly has no end Does it mean that there are bigger? The world famous rat detective Has already took the case Photos taken, dots connected He is pretty sure it was rats!
4.
Cholera 04:06
Is this help sign big enough? I’m holding it above my head, I’m staying just to see How everything will end And just to hear your honest laugh Am I just making an excuse? A part of me thinks that I am Another part of me Is telling you and them: My body still can be of use I’ll gladly die in front of you Just trying to communicate That Smallpox and Plague will seal our fate Wait, and Influenza will arrive Live a Scarlet Fever dream alive I read the news today, oh boy! It’s printed all across my face! Impossible to miss, And also to erase I’m barely standing broken toy I’ll gladly die in front of you Just trying to communicate That Smallpox and Plague will seal our fate Wait, and Influenza will arrive Live a Scarlet Fever dream alive A metaphorical disease It is not perfect, but what is? I’m staying just to see the end Cholera is my dearest friend Is this help sign big enough? I’ve carved it right into my skin It is the only thing That keeps my mind clean I'm simply looking for some love I’ll gladly die in front of you Just trying to communicate That Smallpox and Plague will seal our fate Wait, and Influenza will arrive Live a Scarlet Fever dream alive I’m staying just to see the end Cholera is my dearest friend
5.
Tick-Tock 04:31
Tick-tock, tick-tock Time is up, death-o-clock When the time is ticking Your lifetime is shrinking Tick-tock, tick-tock Sun is up, get to work Better start working Or you'll hate yourself I know exactly what the time is I do not need no fucking clocks I hear the footsteps of death behind me They sound like ticking, they never stop Every second I am not working I feel I’m wasting my finite time The clocks are ticking, the clocks are talking I almost hear them in my mind Tick-tock, tick-tock Time is up, death-o-clock When the time is ticking Your lifetime is shrinking Tick-tock, tick-tock Sun is up, get to work Better start working Or you'll hate yourself And after every action My soul shrinks in size A fraction of a fraction Dies I tried to follow the dream I’d chosen - I was as lost as I was before I tried to stop, tried to smell the roses They smelled like tension, and nothing more The time is slipping right through my fingers Something’s broken inside my brain The time is passing, and I can feel this If I were me I would go insane Tick-tock, tick-tock Time is up, death-o-clock When the time is ticking Your lifetime is shrinking Tick-tock, tick-tock Sun is up, get to work Better start working Or you'll hate yourself And after every action My soul shrinks in size A fraction of a fraction Dies Tick-tock, tick-tock Deep inside something broke Life could be fine If you’ve got the time Tick-tock, tick-tock Time is up, death-o-clock Better start working Like it’s your final day By counting all your fears You will go down fast In hundred thousand years My soul will turn to dust The plethora of choices To live or chase my dream No matter what the choice is I’ll hate myself for it Tick-tock, tick-tock Time is up, death-o-clock When the time is ticking Your lifetime is shrinking Tick-tock, tick-tock Sun is up, get to work Better start working Or you'll hear Tick-tock, tick-tock Deep inside something broke Life could be fine If you’ve got the time Tick-tock, tick-tock Sun is up, get to work Better start working Or you'll hate yourself And after every action My soul shrinks in size A fraction of a fraction Dies And every night I hear The ticking in my head When I wake up I feel Dead Tick-tock, tick-tock Everything is too long I am simply waiting Waiting for my death Tick-tock, tick-tock How much time you have left Now you’ve got four minutes, Thirty seconds less
6.
9 Out Of 10 03:52
Last thing I heard before I died Was 10 frightened doctors talking aside 9 out of 10 doctors argued that I, Giving my blood loss, will surely die 9 out of 10 friends that gathered around Cried when they lowered me into the ground 9 out of 10 thought that I was gone 9 out of 10 times, oh, they were wrong This circle of torture and pain will end If I will rate you and will recommend I resurrect and then again I whisper right into your ear 9 out of 10 A shot to the face, an axe to the neck A dart to the eye, a stab in the back Thrown in the ocean, fed to the pigs Honey, you should know better than this Fall from the mountain onto the knife Poisoned with lead then buried alive Cut into pieces by thousand men It’s getting better, still 9 out of 10 This circle of torture and pain will end If I will rate you and will recommend I resurrect and then again I whisper right into your ear 9 out of 10 Remember what you said? You said I’ll soon be dead You said I had one wish My only wish - a perfect murder The powers that you have But nothing in your head You said I had one wish And now I’m practically immortal The time is going fast How many years have passed? You used to beat me then Until I got it truly perfect The time is going fast How many years have passed? I die and live again You’ll never get the truly perfect ten This circle of torture and pain will end If I will rate you and will recommend I resurrect and then again I whisper right into your ear 9 out of 10 I resurrect and then again I whisper right into your ear 9 out of 10
7.
Little princess in the forest With so strange hypnotic eyes She will reverse the fairy tale And in the end, she’ll have to die And at midnight you can see her In the corner of your eye As she claims souls of children Who were born on starless nights And after all the townsfolk have chorused We leave unwanted children in the forest Little princess in the forest Wears antlers on her head And her children bring her flowers Which hold souls of the dead They corrupt the fairy tale They are laughing in reverse They should all go down in flame If we are to break this curse The fire burning sounded like a song And all the little children sang along Guide them and leave them You'll never see them And their eyes will Turn solid black Won’t hear them creeping You will be sleeping When your unwanted Start coming back Little princess in the forest Has a meathook for an arm And her tears smell of poison If she ever comes to harm And she cried for her children When they died and went to hell And the flowers caught on fire Where her poisoned tears fell Little princess in the forest With so strange hypnotic eyes If we ever to survive this Little princess has to die Guide them and leave them You'll never see them And their eyes will Turn solid black Won’t hear them creeping You will be sleeping When your unwanted Start coming back Prayers are hollow Darkness will follow When your unwanted Will break through the doors Lost and abandoned Your life has ended The last thing you hear Is your scream reversed
8.
Tell them “baby don’t you cry” Pat them on the shoulder Put the splinter in the eye And fuck with the beholder Everything will be alright Honey, don’t you worry We will kill the god tonight Better safe than sorry I just sang the devil’s song God gave me a warning Fuck the rights and fuck the wrongs We have until the morning And tomorrow we’ll be dead Your smile is disarming Fuck beholder in the head Judgment day is coming I have tried all of the stages Bartering and begging I have been like this for ages Why am I still shaking Time and money, I got neither And it’s getting colder There is fear and beauty in the Eye of the beholder I can almost see it clear Splinter notwithstanding We will fucking disappear There's no happy ending You have my remote control Now aim at where my heart is I present my fucking soul Welcome to the darkness See the splinter in my eye What have we done? Is it best for us to die? Tell no one See how many fucks I’m giving As I’m getting older There is darkness hidden in the Eye of the beholder I see now through many lies Now my mind is clear Fuck beholder in the eye Lick a broken mirror Let me see your body naked Stripped of the illusion Take part of the problem make it Part of the solution Let your good side rest in peace In the iron maiden Crawling on our hands and knees Keep calm and hail satan See the splinter in my eye What have we done? Is it best for us to die? Tell no one See the fires in the sky? What have we done? All is lost, the end is nigh We killed the sun Burn the splinter in my eye! Make it undone! Is that something we can hide? Tell no one
9.
Look how it turns around Step on the fairground Carts on the stainless steel Go ride my ferris wheel Good evening m’am, Good evening sir So glad you've come to me Oh, may I ask, how’d I deserve Oh, such a company? I'm glad that I have found A pair of you around I've been depressed, I've looked inside And look what I have found I'll build a piece of art And you will be its part I'm nailing you to a broken wheel To fix my broken heart Screaming as it turns around Bleeding on the fairground Flesh on the stainless steel Nailed to the ferris wheel The fair is closed, The circus - burned Along with the trampoline And who am I: a tortured soul Or just a drama queen? My wheel is turning fast I'm not going to last And every minute of my life Is tainted by my past This symbol is displaying A life that I had failed I want to leave behind me something Something that I've nailed Screaming as it turns around Bleeding on the fairground Flesh on the stainless steel Nailed to the ferris wheel Shattered my mind! Left me behind! Is your ringmaster Dying tonight? Listen to this! The final piece! Let your ringmaster Finally die in peace... I want to make my dreams come true And from this premise comes the rest I tried so hard and failed hard Doing my sincere best To be a man I want to be And knowing that I never will The closest to a fair chance Is spinning the samsara wheel I wonder why, I wonder why You beg to let you die I wonder if, I wonder if You do not want to live To hell with your opinions It is the work of genius A monument to a failed life Is not for your convenience I could just let you free But I want you to see That I will never die alone I'm taking you with me Screaming as it turns around Bleeding on the fairground Flesh on the stainless steel Nailed to the ferris wheel
10.
Come out en masse, dance on the grass And feel the sunlight on your skin It's nothing but pure joy and love And everything is colored green My microscope and stethoscope Will leave you greatly terrified I'll check your gums, I'll check your lungs I'm scary, and I'm wearing white The sun is bright, you feel alright I know exactly how it feels But just your mood will do no good You need your medicine and pills Lives are at stake, I will not break The Hippocratic Oath I gave Bark from a tree and herbal tea Will lead you straight into the grave I smell your fear, and I feel tremors in your knees And I can say in Latin the name of your disease It’s all unnatural what we will do tonight I smell of medicine, I stand here, wearing white Forget your plans, I’ve got your scans And I’m afraid I have bad news You feel alright, but you will die Unless we stuff you full of tubes It will be worse, the choice is yours The time is up, the stakes are high But know: it's wrong to live too long And it is natural to die I smell your fear, and I feel tremors in your knees And I can say in Latin the name of your disease It’s all unnatural what we will do tonight I smell of medicine, I stand here, wearing white You will be cured by any means Ignore your white coat phobia The sterile tools and cold machines Are coded as dystopia Open your eyes - you could’ve died Look at yourself - you are feeling alright Now go and spread your insanity Go on and preach your humanity I smell your fear, and I feel tremors in your knees And I can say in Latin the name of your disease I could choose green, but I chose medicine instead I’m wearing white because white goes best with red
11.
Once upon an early autumn As the rain was pouring down One of the circus acrobats Fell for a happy clown Acrobat came to that clown Trembling from within Why I never see you laughing But I always see you grin I feel absolutely nothing Said the happy clown If you want to see me laughing Burn the circus down I remember you were joyful I remember how you laughed At the death of the magician When he sawed himself in half I hadn't heard your favorite song You hummed for quite a while You used to sing, but now you're silent With your creepy concrete smile I don’t feel anything Said the happy clown If you want to hear me sing, please, Burn the circus down I have traveled with this circus All across the map Now it pinned my soul in place Like a mousetrap One day circus tent caught fire I've noticed something odd I've been so absurdly happy Like I'm fucking ten years old All my life and my routine Just a big letdown Take a can of gasoline Burn the circus down Acrobat just turned away They walked their separate ways And the happy clown kept on smiling, Dreaming of the world ablaze And one day they woke up In bed side-by-side Let’s burn down this circus With all of them inside So they stayed in the burning circus Never to be found What’s the moral of that story, What’s it all about? If life fails to amuse you Do it all yourself Take the match and light the fuse And burn your fucking self

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