The Merry-Go-Round

Lyrics: Gregory Holgate Music: Quinlan Stuwe Stup: Logged in but I don’t remember logging on World spins, tell me what’s with all the polygons? Wrong skin, tell me where the heck’s my body gone? Messed with a headset, have I got the goggles on? I’m not sure of my face – don’t remember my name But soon I’m certain to wake - this must be all in my brain Is this Circ du Soleil? ‘Cause this is flipping insane Think I’m a bird that is caged inside a video game Caine: Welcome to our little digital realm! My, my! I can see you’re just a bit overwhelmed! Why cry? You’re just bidding bye-bye to your life High time that you got a better grip of yourself! Get off the textured floor and see the tent du jour! You’ve yet to get the tour! – Is there an exit door...? Zooble: You can forget it… Jax: – Sure! That’s why we left before Ragatha: Wow Jax, mature. Gangle: What did you scare them for? Stup: This can’t be happening – my sanity’s unravelling I’m scrambling to snap out of this saccharine imagining A parrot in a wacky canvas shack packed with mannequins Kinger: Whoops, don’t crack! Hear the madness they were babbling? Ragatha: Gosh, I hope they’re okay… Jax: Relax, Doll… This isn’t even canon. Gangle: Canon..? Pomni: What do you mean Canon? Zooble: He means that right now we exist even less than we usually do. Pomni: Wha-? Jax: See? Kinger: AAGH! Jax: Hehe, classic… You’re in a Digital Circus – get back in your seats It’s the maze in amazing – the trap in trapeze You know resisting is worthless – so sing to the theme Enslaved to the stage but the admission is free You’re tied in a tight rope – prepare for the fun Your life as a sideshow has barely begun So smile to the stalls – at faces yet to be found It’s up to us all to make the merry go round Stup: No way that I’m taking a fate in this place Encased in a game on a faded display Caine: You’re PG indentured! Stup: – I’m pleading with dentures… Caine: You need an adventure! Bubble, take it away! Bubble: - Okay! New addition to the big-top! Check the guest list, we can see you’re ticked off Hit the gift shop – popcorn and a fizz-pop I spit pretty sick – but you bet it’ll be licked up Caine: WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS?! - Oop! Moving on! You’ll see, chickadee, this is where you belong! Why it’s meant to be! Destiny! Endless in entropy! (Pending indemnities) Bubble: - Rest of the song! Caine: You could rack up some points and go and gather the gloinks! That’s the practical choice - because it’s that or the void! Ride a slide or hide inside a giant pie or fry some eggs or find the exit No forget about the exit there’s so much to enjoy! Slumber parties, monkey bars and underwater bumper cars A hundred yards of hunting darts or funky bumping lumber yards Ten assorted tennis courts, a desk to check your credit score A teleporting exit door and WHOA! HAHA! NEVER MIND! Stup: It’s a CD-ROM panopticon, and I don’t feel amazement Incarcerated, caged in outdated edutainment A CD-I of ceaseless eyes- of fun and game enslavement Caine: Quit that line of thinking or you’ll END UP IN THE BASEMENT Stup: What the F*** does that even mean?! Ooh - accept surrender – to this hellish render - we know This tent’s forever – best you just get on with the show Bask in the splendour – get your new adventure and go Just keep your head up lest you want to end up below Stup: Show me the door - Send me a sign Carnival barking and out of my mind This isn’t fair – at least not that kind I just wanna roll up, roll up and die... You’re in a Digital Circus – get back in your seats It’s the maze in amazing – the trap in trapeze You know resisting is worthless – so sing to the theme No hope of escaping – this tent aint for fleas You’re tied in a tight rope – prepare for the fun Your life as a sideshow has barely begun So smile to the stalls – at faces yet to be found It’s up to us all to make the merry go round Stup: Living in a theatre isn’t what you’d dream When you’re caught in a loop in a CG park Like a video arena by Hideo Kojima Jumping through hoops for a P.Teeth. Barnham I’m starting – to lose my grip As the days start to melt to malaise mayonnaise and they drip And they pool at my feet and I see the reflection projected that’s meant to be me But I’ve no recollection of genuine me, I don’t eat, I don’t sleep It’s just ceaseless, adventure, adventure repeat and repeat And I need a reprieve – won’t you please let me leave? But I don’t even know what I’d be if I leave And they say take it easy and breathe – to release the unease But I’m clearly abandoned to needlessly random scenes Where it seems I’m the featured attraction – weeks spent Pleading and screaming in tandem Clearly you see that the teeth are the madman? Each of them speaking to me of abstraction But they won’t explain what it means when I ask them But they won’t explain what it means when I ask them But they won’t explain what it means when I ask them But they won’t explain what it means- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAHAAHHAHA You’re in a Digital Circus – get back in your seats It’s the maze in amazing – the trap in trapeze You know resisting is worthless – so sing to the theme No lions for taming – it’s you bearing the teeth You’re tied in a tight rope – prepare for the fun Your life as a sideshow has barely begun So smile to the stalls – at faces yet to be found It’s up to us all to make the merry go round The merry go round. The merry go round It’s up to us all to make the merry go round The merry go round. The merry go round End up with the fall - or make the merry go round. Ragatha: Wow, that… That really didn’t take long at all? Jax: Eh, typical self-insert. Speed-ran the whole arc to fit it into a video. Zooble: Honestly, I’m just p****d they got to skip the theme song Gangle: Bu…But I like the theme song… Kinger: And they didn’t even show me their insect collection! Pomni: Did Caine sound kind of different to anyone else today..? Or just me..? Caine: OHOHO! I don’t know what you mean, Pomni! I sounded PERFECTLY normal! Kinger: Won’t SOMEBODY show me their insect collection?