Here comes the circus now to steal your life away
Catch unwary children at their play
Disturb what was a peaceful island of calm
A storm is coming on the horizon
The traveller begs for you his words to heed
To fear the evil thing that he proceeds
Recruiting evil in the autumn times of sin
A mad collection of broken men

Thunder ripping out across the sky
Draw the lighning out of my mind
By the prickling of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes

The house of mirrors is your place of play
Ten thousand faces driving you insane
A carnival of hate crawling through your mind
A gripping fear that leaves you paralyzed

Thunder ripping out across the sky
Draw the lighning out of my mind
By the prickling of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes

Thunder ripping out across the sky
Draw the lighning out of my mind
By the prickling of my thumbs
Something wicked this way comes

A spiral of anger breaks its human fold
A chapter of hatred starts its evil flow

Now a trial begins
A clash of senseless hate
Before the fences mend
Another violent end

Cambodia soon became its home
The holy land, an endless scene of human blood

Now a trial begins
A clash of senseless hate
Before the fences mend
Another violent end


Looking down upon the hate and sin
Is there no way out, a way out of this maze
Why can't we put away our bloody violent ways
Can't we have some peace why can't we let it end
A hundred thousand years the world is still the same
Where does it start why do we let it all begin
Where does it end now no one ever knows
Let peace come to this weary globe

See a man living behind glass walls
His eyes are blind they see nothing, nothing at all,
All his thoughts bend towards things,
Things that only he sees
All the world a reflection of his dreams,
His nightmares are all too real

Trapped within a crystalline world of thought
Not a fool unaware, of what must be sought
All his hopes and his dreams they are frozen in time
All the world a reflection of his dreams,
His nightmares are all too real

Tear out the eyes that do not see
Turning your thoughts to perceptions within

Reaching through shadows blood on his hands
Grasping the truth that he has found

The son of families of millionaires is representing the masses
I thought that most people I know are broke
Taxation by representation tell me all about it huh
How does this whole damn trickle down thing work

Don't blame me your sins are on your head
I won't be accused I'm a product of my times
I've left your future behind

Let's talk about hypocrisy
You supercilious son of a bitch
You want to talk about the mess I've made
Well you better check under your bed
The war on drugs the war on crime
The war on poverty the war on peace
It seems to me we're only fighting ourselves
Since when did we become the enemy

Don't blame me your sins are on your head
I won't be accused I'm a product of my times
I've left your future behind

Sit back in your easy chair and lecture me on how it was
You make it sound like the world went to hell
Exactly on the day I was born
Open your eyes open your mind
And look at things the way that they are
Stop looking at the world through a prism of delusional thought

Don't blame me your sins are on your head
I won't be accused I'm a product of my times
Don't blame me your sins are on your head
I won't be accused I'm a product of my times
I've left your future behind

A strange feeling has come over me
A change of my mind and a change of my soul
Turning my back on the past I once knew
Sacrificing everything that I hold

Becoming something foul and obscene
Losing my will to do as I feel
I feel now that I've lost all that I love
Promises forgotten friendships left in the dust

A meeting years ago and far from my home
Now I try to remain true to your memory
Time goes by and years work their way on me
Memories dim as my body grows old

A life of wandering alone is what I have made
Too late now I have learned what I regret

My eyes see more than most,
Maybe I see more than I want to see
My ears hear more than most,
Maybe I hear more than I want to hear
My mouth says more than most,
Maybe I say more than I want to say
My heart feels more than most,
Maybe I feel more than I want to feel

Now I break free from the chains of my own self restraint
No more will I be bound by outside constraints

I found the source of strength within myself
No more will I let myself be less than I am

Wander into someone's life you're self assured
You're building trust and winning dreams
You hide behind a mask your face is not your own
Of your true side little is seen
As time goes by dependance builds up day by day
Illusion built up out of lies

No time, gotta get away
I won't be bound by your mistakes
I'm not an experiment
Now I know just who I am
No time, gotta get away
I won't be bound by your mistakes
I'm not an experiment
Now I know just who I am

You hide behind a mask your face is not your own
Of your true side little is seen
As time goes by dependance builds up day by day
Illusion built up out of lies
Hopelessly trapped helplessly hoping it's not real
You try to close your ears against their cries

No time, gotta get away
I won't be bound by your mistakes
I'm not an experiment
Now I know just who I am
No time, gotta get away
I won't be bound by your mistakes
I'm not an experiment
Now I know just who I am

No time, gotta get away
I won't be bound by your mistakes
I'm not an experiment
Now I know just who I am
No time, gotta get away
I won't be bound by your mistakes
I'm not an experiment
Now I know just who I am...

Politicians' plastic grin
Talking with that alien
We can rest our troubled minds tonight
No solutions here on earth
The president's a fucking jerk
Now the answer's coming from the sky

Oh are the heavens dropping in
To save us from destruction of ourselves,
Or have they come to serve man
Armed with a cookbook straight from hell

Saucers come to save our nation
Touching down at Union Station
Holding summit meetings on the lawn
The Weekly World was on the ball
The Post and Tribune missed it all
Wait a minute where was I?

Oh are the heavens dropping in
To save us from destruction of ourselves,
Or have they come to serve man
Armed with a cookbook straight from hell

Now we know from even higher
Which candidate's a bigger liar
From bad to worse who cares who wins the fight
Don't think I remember when you couldn't trust an alien
With propaganda left and right

Oh are the heavens dropping in
To save us from destruction of ourselves,
Or have they come to serve man
Armed with a cookbook straight from hell

Another time of madness descends
Why can't the hatred ever seem to end
Man against man brothers fighting one another
And no one ready to make amends
Violence calls to my spirit and my sanity
As madness sweeps all reason from my mind

I see the horsemen coming
Out of the west like a hurricane
I hear the horsemen calling out my name

Fingers of hate now pluck the strings of my heart
My blood signs red with a bloody want
As my soul screams a futile cry for reason
The riders call to my basest part

I see the horsemen coming
Out of the west like a hurricane
I hear the horsemen calling out my name

I see the horsemen coming
Out of the west like a hurricane
I hear the horsemen calling out my, my name

When the time of violent outrage now arrives
Are the horsemen waiting from the side
In this time when the world can reach no reason
Or is this the calm before the storm

I hear
I hear

Doe, a deer that Nugent shot
Ray, a fish that's flat
Me, the guy who's always getting fucked
Fa, the ride to our next gig
So, it means I'm not impressed
La, a place where we record
Ti, H C it's found in pot
Dough is what I never seem to have

Mother Goose was never here
Father Christmas was a drunk
Easter Bunny well done tasted good
Peter Pan hung out with fairies
Tinkerbell got blown away
Mary Poppins O.D.'d on Quaaludes

Yo, a word to call my friends
Hey, it's how I say hello
Skeeve, the guy who drives your bus
Ma, the one who sleeps with dad
Bone, a spliff I roll myself
Pa, the guy who whips your ass
Dis, a bust on someone else
Dough, is what I never seem to have

Mother Goose was never here
Father Christmas was a drunk
Easter Bunny well done tasted good
Peter Pan hung out with fairies
Tinkerbell got blown away
Mary Poppins O.D.'d on Quaaludes

Ho, a bitch who takes your cash
Spray, is what I did to her
Heave, is when I vomit up
Car, a way to get around

You fuck me huh? You fucking weak asshole dickhead cocksucker
You fucking come on
Come fuck with me
I'll kick your ass you jerk
You fuckhead motherfucker, fuck all you and your family
Come on you cocksucker slime-fucking shitface dirtball
Come on your asshole!

Bro, a guy who lends you cash
Lay, it ain't just lying down
Pee, a way to skip out on your class
Bra, this thing that you unsnap
No, the word you never want to hear
Nah, it's how you say no way
Free, the price that nothing ever is
Dough, is what I never seem to have

Morther Goose was never here
Father Christmas was a drunk
Easter Bunny well done tasted good
Peter Pan hung out with fairies
Tinkerbell got blown away
Mary Poppins O.D.'d on Quaaludes

Tow, a truck for when your car's gone down
Rahs, the girls who do the jocks
Tee, a place to put your balls
Grow, my hair until I drop

It's fucking art, man!!!

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