once upon a time in a daymare
dying to meet you, litlle child, enter enter this sideshow

time for bed, the cradle still rocks
13 chimes on a dead man’s clock
tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock

the bride will lure you, cook you, eat you
your dear innocence boiled to feed the evil in need of fear

burning farms and squeeling pigs
a pool of snakes to swim with, oh sweet poison
bite me, bite me
“ladies and gentlemen
be heartlessly welcome!
to cirque de morgue
and what a show we have for you tonight!”

restless souls will put on their dancing shoes
mindless ghouls with lots of limbs to lose
illusionists, contortionist,
tightrope – walkers thightening the noose

horde of spiders, closet tentacles
laughing harpies with their tallons ripping
sher-chrisss, per-vizz

the pendulum still sways for you
such are the darks here to show you, child in a corner
fallen mirrors, all kingdom in cinders