Give a rosy-cheeked sermon, you precocious little vermin you
Try not to notice the moon
Take your precious disturbance, the stars are unnerving you
The tragedy is always over far too soon

So sing, Pierrot, just sing me a song for a while

The magic has deserted you for another perverted youth
Unjust desserts served just for you
The silence is so cunning and there's no exile without running
And thoughts are fleeting fancies for dreaming dandies

So sing, Pierrot, just sing me a song for a while

Sing, Pierrot, Sing

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Edelweiss Piraten

Clown shoes
Sideshow blues
Drunk again
Carnival sins

And these hometown streets are not my own
And the city folk only bitch and moan
When they're pointing at me with penitent fingers
They can't look away from the voiceless singers

So why do I cry
When I'm born into this life
And your god is an impresario
And your lovers are shameless geeks, oh no

Saintly candles
Savage candles
Priestly confessionals
Ghastly peepholes

And the sideshow tyrants charge full price
And I can't trust the rousties 'cause they just ain't nice
When the sun goes down on the merry-go-round
I just think about home, stare at the ground

So let's take another pill, let's take a ride
On the merry-go-round so high tonight
And I won't try to kiss you because I know
That there ain't no such thing as love

Absolution is out of the question

Merry-Go-Round

A stuttering picaro singing songs from a hymn book soaked in absinthe.

Sterling Wormwood

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