... Carousel ...

place this coin in the back of your mouth
(now swallow it down)
this will show you who's who & what what's all about
turn the lights down...pink & blue (yellow too)
cotton candy clouds are filling the room
just hang on you'll really get lost
if you get off too soon

you can trot, you can pace
there is no winner in this game
here, the horses take the reins
this ingenue is giving you away

a few more coins will last you the night
with carousel shoes & painted eyes
i think you'll do just fine
they'll never know what you've got inside
just go towards the carousel lights
REMEMBER: "they can't take
what YOU don't let them find..."

we go fast we go slow WE GET HIGH & we get low
we dine with devils & dance with clowns
we go round & round & ROUND...

and when we SPIN we don't care who's skin we're in
it's all FUN & games till I trip on their footprints
time & again
i turn on the lights but the room is vacant
for relishing sins I'm bridled in this desolation

we fall down, we fall out
we get up, to fall back down
it has cost you SO MUCH for this little bout
& your coins have just run out

the MOST beautiful things
come from such dark places
all these things I learn just keep filling up their spaces
my heart used to recognize their faces
from time to time I think I pick up traces...

© 2006 Spindle