The Merry-Go-Round

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, I don't remember my name

But soon I'm certain to wake, this must be all in my brain

Is this cirque du soleil? 'Cause this is flippin' insane

Think I'm a bird that is caged inside a video game

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?

You can forget it

Sure, that's why we left before

Wow, Jax, mature

What did you scare them for?

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

Whoops, don't crack

Hear the madness they were babbling?

Gosh, I hope they're okay

Eh, relax, doll, this isn't even canon

Canon?

What do you mean "Canon"?

He means that right now we exist even less than we usually do

Wha-

See?

Hehe, classic

You're in a digital circus, get back in your seats

It's the maze in amazin', the trap in trapeze

You know resistin' is worthless, so sing to the theme

Enslaved to the stage but the admission is free

You're tied in a tightrope, 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

No way that I'm taking a fate in this place

Encased in a game on a faded display

You're PG-indentured

I'm pleading with dentures

You need an adventure, Bubble, take it away

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

Spit pretty sick, but you bet it'll be licked up

Why are you like this? Oop, moving on

Why it's meant to be, destiny, endless in entropy

(Pending indemnities)

Rest of the song

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 — Woah, haha, nevermind

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

Quit that line of thinking or you'll end up in the basement, woah

What the **** 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

Show me the door, send me a sign (Accept surrender to this hellish render we know)

Carnival barking and out of my mind (This tent's forever, best you just get on with the show)

This isn't fair, at least not that kind (Bask in the splendour, get your new adventure and go)

I just wanna roll up, roll up and die (Just keep your head up lest you want to end up below)

(And Die)

(And Die)

(And Die)

You're in a digital circus, get back in your seats

It's the maze in amazin', the trap in trapeze

You know resistin' is worthless, so sing to the theme

No hope of escapin', this tent ain't for fleas

You're tied in a tightrope, 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)

The merry-go-round (The merry-go-round)

The merry-go-round (The merry-go-round)

Livin' 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

Jumpin' through hoops for a P. Teeth Barnham

I'm startin' 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 pleadin' and screamin' 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

They won't explain what it means when I ask them

They won't explain what it means when I ask them

They won't explain what it means—

You're in a digital circus, get back in your seats

It's the maze in amazin', the trap in trapeze (Oh, it's the trap in trapeze)

You know resistin' is worthless, so sing to the theme

No lions for tamin', it's you bearin' the teeth

You're tied in a tightrope, prepare for the fun (Prepare for the fun)

Your life as a sideshow has barely begun

So smile to the stalls, at faces yet to be found (Yet to be found)

It's up to us all to make the merry go 'round

The merry-go-round (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, and around, and around)

The merry-go-round (The merry-go-round)

The merry-go-round (The merry-go-round)

End up with the fall, or make the merry go 'round (The merry-go-round, and around, and around)

Ahaha, wow, that—

That really didn't take long at all

Eh, typical self-insert

Speed-ran the whole arc to fit it into a video

Honestly, I'm just **** they got to skip the theme song

But I like the theme song

And they didn't show me their insect collection

Uh, did Caine sound kind of different to anyone else today?

Or is it just me?

Hahaha, I don't know what you mean, Pomni

I sounded perfectly normal

Won't somebody show me their insect collection?