Amusement Park

Verse 1

Step right up, take your ticket for the fall

Spinning in the teacups while they're tearing down the wall

Rollercoaster running on a rusted-out track

Once you pay admission, baby, you don't get it back

Balloons floating high till they pop in the heat

Discarded wrappers scattered at our feet

Pre-Chorus

Red light, green light, flash in my eye

Cotton candy melting under ultraviolet sky

The speaker box is crackling, telling us to stay

While the carousels are spinning all our memories away

Chorus

Welcome to the park, welcome to the show

Screaming on the drop while you're waving at the low

Laughing at the exit, but the doors are welded shut

Smiling for the camera while you're bleeding from a cut

Round and round, never touching ground

Lost inside the loudest kind of sound

Verse 2

Funhouse mirrors making shadows look tall

I lean against the glass just to watch myself fall

The Ferris wheel is stuck right at the very top

We're sitting in the clouds waiting for the world to stop

Popcorn stale and the tickets turned to dust

Trading all our golden promises for rust

Pre-Chorus

Red light, green light, flash in my eye

Cotton candy melting under ultraviolet sky

The speaker box is crackling, telling us to stay

While the carousels are spinning all our memories away

Chorus

Welcome to the park, welcome to the show

Screaming on the drop while you're waving at the low

Laughing at the exit, but the doors are welded shut

Smiling for the camera while you're bleeding from a cut

Round and round, never touching ground

Lost inside the loudest kind of sound

Bridge

Ring the bell, win a prize, carry home a painted shell

We built a tiny kingdom inside a carousel

Watch the neon flicker, watch the colors start to bleed

Giving this machine every single thing we need

Is it getting closer, or is it moving far?

Searching for a exit while we're riding on a star

Chorus

Welcome to the park, welcome to the show

Screaming on the drop while you're waving at the low

Laughing at the exit, but the doors are welded shut

Smiling for the camera while you're bleeding from a cut

Round and round, never touching ground

Lost inside the loudest kind of sound

Outro

Round and round again until the power dies...

Looking at the clown, but he's got my eyes.

Ticket stub torn in half.

Nobody left to laugh.

Power down.

Silence.