Never Complete

Intro

Ominous wind, cold grin

Switch flickers, tightrope spins

Jagged holes in my mind, can't repair

One piece gone—still searching, searching

Verse 1

Carnival crawling, cracked carousel

Fingers fumble—where

Is it hiding, in the sawdust, in sneaky shadows

One corner mocks me

Paint flakes peeling from the painted smile

Puzzle slips, slivers slide, stuck tight

twisted teeth grind

My hands—dust-drowned, frantic, frantic

Chasing shapes I can’t remember

Chorus

Lost the last piece, spiral descends

I lost the last piece

Never complete, never complete

Post-Chorus

Ticking clocks, missing blocks

Flicker trick, slip and slip

Verse 2—Style shift: circus waltz

Calliope screaming, unhinged and bright

Colored masks laugh behind lamplight

Maybe it's in the lion's cage, lost beneath straw

Maybe I just let it rot, let it rot

Sharp applause, empty jaws

Turn the board, see—nothing

Hands shaking, heart breaking

Hands shaking, mind blanking

Chorus

Lost the last piece, spiral descends

I lost the last piece

Never complete, never complete

Bridge—Noise/metal breakdown

Missing, missing, must be here

Missing, missing, must be clear

Torn tablecloth, shattered glass

Dizzying yells, thrumming brass

No peace, no rest

All I need—(all I need)

Is that jagged edge

Completion laughs, denies me, denies me

Verse 3—Cabaret shuffle

Red curtain falls, hush hush, hush hush

Cracked mirror shows someone else’s puzzle,

I am not whole, I am not whole

Anaphora, anaphora lost in the corners

Alliteration, shuddering shapes shifting slim shadows

Frustration floods, fills every seam

Chorus

Lost the last piece, spiral descends

I lost the last piece

Never complete, never complete

Post-Chorus/Outro—Multiple style changes

Spin and shiver, slip and slide

Spin and shiver, slip and slide

(All I needed)

All I needed, all I needed

Lost to the floor, lost to the void

All I needed, all I needed

Never complete never complete