Looking at my circus mirror
the image of a clown
fighting of those tattooed tears
I kept changing my direction
but those angles of deception
kept leading me astray every day
Became a tamer of the lions
ruthless in my ways
I got locked up in a cage
when nobody came to let me out
I've been riding all day on this lonely circus train
and I don't know where I am or how I got here
Every town looks just the same when you're caught up in this game
and delusion is my only salvation
All these strangers gathered in disguise
Casting ghostly shadows on my eyes
Then the wind came pounding on my window
a beat that I could dance to
and the wind howled a strange melody
Now I'm yearning for protection
from all the lights reflection
I wait for sunny skies to cover my eyes tonight
I'm still hiding these obsessions
and coughing up confessions
laid out like fallacy I want to believe
will set me free
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