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Funhouse Mirrors
03:57
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arise arise today's the day the carnival arrives
like the perfect birthday gift unwrapped before our eyes
hurry hurry lets all scurry
for our favorite rides
and at midnight fireworks illuminate the sky
if you’re looking for me
you know where i’ll be
funhouse mirrors
looking at you thru
funhouse mirrors
changing my view
oh i saw you for the first time
looking at me in
funhouse mirrors
there we stood at the gate
but we just couldn’t wait
we jumped over the wall
into the carnival
and you looked so beautiful and so unusual
i saw you standing there
in
funhouse mirrors
looking at you thru
funhouse mirrors
changing my view
oh i saw you for the first time
looking at me in
funhouse mirrors
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September Song
02:54
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summer is gone
september song
it’s getting cool
get back to school
blue jeans and a corduroy jacket
summer is gone
september song
we’ll go to the fair
lots of things to do there
blue jeans and a corduroy jacket
down come all the leaves
blue jeans and a corduroy jacket
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Candy Apple Girl
02:18
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at the city fair on saturday night
candy apple girl
saw her standin’ there with her hair up high
candy apple girl
so i moved on over in her general direction
thought i’d take a whirl
oh candy apple girl
caught me looking out the corner of her eye now
candy apple girl
said i got a few tickets wanna go for a ride now
candy apple girl
took a hold of her hand
at the old time dance
with a promenade and twirl
oh candy apple girl
hot damn she took me on a roller coaster
candy apple girl
learned me real good
not to be a big boaster
candy apple girl
she’s sweet as sugar
on a cherry plum pie
with an ice cream peppermint swirl
oh candy apple girl
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Ghost Song
02:23
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there will always be a special place
I keep inside of space and time
a picture a familiar face
a memory of a hand on mine
the first note that was ever played
has stayed with me like sunshine
a song that was written just for me
now feels so out of time
and when the night is still
there inside October's chill
like a ghost song
you always come back to me
there will always be inside my heart
a pocket full of memories
that are locked there in a world apart
from everything that’s seen
and seems so meaningful but lost
tossed out by the hands of time
where the infinite mercy of love
watches over me
and when the night is still
there inside October's chill
like a ghost song
you always come back to me
there will always be a special place
i keep inside of space and time
like a ghost song
you always come back to me
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Addio
01:20
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the house of horrors
and the roller coasters bolted gate
the pendulum’s no longer swinging
for it is late
the boys and girls
all on the tilt a whirl
are ghosts
at the funhouse mirrors
their shattered slivered hosts
the carousel fell
into the fortune tellers
sacred mound
the missing teeth of barkers
buried in the ground
the scare o plane
and bumper cars
are still
the flying horses
are all out of sorts
no shrill
the laughing lady
went quite crazy
now lives alone
behind the arcade
where music played
thru a megaphone
the matterhorn
was torn down just
before the plague
at the stroke of midnight
the last carny ghost dances
on a wooden leg
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Freaks
02:02
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i never cared for people
they’re brutal and unreal
i like to stay alone
in my trailer by the ferris wheel
i work as a carny
with a girl name of peg
she likes to carve her name into my wooden leg
just before i’m half past dead
hammer a nail into my big block head
put me on a stage as a rock n roll clown
and send me off to gibson town
i prefer the face of strangers if they're quiet and kind
those who do not fit
been left out and left behind
i once tried to fit in
all i got was stuck
now i’m old and i just don’t give a fuck
when i die don’t bury me
scatter my ashes neath the dogwood tree
sing a song and dance around
and send me off to gibson town
when i die don’t bury me
scatter my ashes neath the dogwood tree
salute me with a beer and song
leave me here to gibson town
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Ghosts Of The Promenade
01:31
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12. |
Welcome To Deathworld
01:48
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heed this warning
all the trees and birds cry
while you were fawning
all the rivers ran dry
I will come to see you
and the price will be high
the earth is dying now
and you take it all and run
reaping what you sow
may you be the first to know
you don’t when
the collector will be down
the world is dying now
you take it all and run
reaping what you sow
may you be the first to know
may you be the first to know
and the last to go
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Black Mascara
01:55
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she wore black mascara
it ran down the side of her cheek
when she cried “abandon me!”
she wore black mascara
wiped down the side of her sleeve
when she smiled and abandoned me
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Freak
03:54
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i worked as a carny
with a two headed girl name of peg
she used to drink and carve her name into my wooden leg
harold was a junkie
said he shot dope with jesus christ
i said you’re better off alone man
you can get off twice
he said just before i’m half past dead
hammer a nail into my big block head
prop me up on a stage like a rock n roll clown
and send me off to gibson town
i prefer the face of strangers if they’re quiet and kind
those who do not fit
and have been left out and left behind
i once tried to fit in
all i got was stuck
now i’m old and i just don’t give a fuck
when i die don’t bury me
drag my ass to that dogwood tree
sing a song and dance about
and send me off to gibson town
when i die don’t bury me
drag my ass to that dogwood tree
salute me with a beer and song
leave my bones here in gibson town
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