The Merry-Go-Round Lyrics – The Stupendium

Read the full The Merry-Go-Round lyrics by The Stupendium along with the music video, song credits, release information and other details about the song.

[Verse 1: Cosmo & Caine (The Stupendium)]
Logged in, but I don’t remember logging on
World spins, tell me, what’s with all the polygons?
Wrong skin, tell me where the heck’s my body gone?
Messed with a headset, have I got the goggles on?
I’m not sure of my face, I don’t remember my name
But soon I’m certain to wake, this must be all in my brain
Is this cirque du soleil? ‘Cause this is flipping insane
Think I’m a bird that is caged inside a video game
Welcome to our little digital realm
My, my, I can see you’re just a bit overwhelmed
Why cry? You’re just bidding bye-bye to your life

High time that you got a better grip of yourself
Get off the textured floor and see the tent du jour
You’ve yet to get the tour
Is there an exit door?

[Interlude: Zooble (Ashley Nichols), Jax (Michael Kovach), Ragatha (Amanda Hufford) & Gangle (Marissa Lenti)]
You can forget it
Sure, that’s why we left before
Wow, Jax, mature
What did you scare them for?

[Verse 2: Cosmo (The Stupendium) & Kinger (Sean Chiplock)]
This can’t be happening, my sanity’s unravelling
I’m scrambling to snap out of this saccharine imagining
A parrot in a wacky canvas shack packed with mannequins
Whoops, don’t crack
Hear the madness they were babbling?

Gosh, I hope they’re okay
Eh, relax, doll, this isn’t even canon
Canon?
What do you mean “Canon”?
He means that right now we exist even less than we usually do
Wha—
See?

Shrieks
Hehe, classic

[Chorus: The Stupendium]
You’re in a digital circus, get back in your seats
It’s the maze in amazing, the trap in trapeze
You know resisting is worthless, so sing to the theme
Enslaved to the stage but the admission is free
You’re tied in a tightrope, prepare for the fun
Your life as a sideshow has barely begun
So smile to the stalls, at faces yet to be found
It’s up to us all to make the merry go ’round

[Verse 3: Cosmo, Caine & Bubble (The Stupendium)]
No way that I’m taking a fate in this place
Encased in a game on a faded display
You’re PG indentured
I’m pleading with dentures
You need an adventure, Bubble, take it away
Okay, new addition to the big-top
Check the guest list, we can see you’re ticked off
Hit the gift shop, popcorn and a fizz-pop
Spit pretty sick, but you bet it’ll be licked up
Why are you like this? Oop, moving on
You’ll see, chickadee, this is where you belong
Why it’s meant to be, destiny, endless in entropy
(Pending indemnities)
Rest of the song
You could rack up some points and go and gather the gloinks
That’s the practical choice, because it’s that or the void
Ride a slide or hide inside a giant pie or fry some eggs or find the exit
No, forget about the exit, there’s so much to enjoy
Slumber parties, monkey bars and underwater bumper cars
A hundred yards of hunting darts, or funky bumping lumber yards
Ten assorted tennis courts, a desk to check your credit score
A teleporting exit door and— Woah, haha, nevermind
It’s a CD-ROM panopticon and I don’t feel amazement
Incarcerated, caged in outdated edutainment
A CD-I of ceaseless eyes, of fun and game enslavement
Quit that line of thinking or you’ll end up in the basement, woah
What the **** does that even mean?

[Bridge: The Stupendium, Ashley Nichols, Michael Kovach, Amanda Hufford, Marissa Lenti, Sean Chiplock & Lizzie Freeman, The Stupendium]
Ooh, accept surrender to this hellish render we know
This tent’s forever, best you just get on with the show
Bask in the splendour, get your new adventure and go
Just keep your head up lest you want to end up below
(Accept surrender to this hellish render we know)
Show me the door, send me a sign
(This tent’s forever, best you just get on with the show)
Carnival barking and out of my mind
(Bask in the splendour, get your new adventure and go)
This isn’t fair, at least not that kind
(Just keep your head up lest you want to end up below)
I just wanna roll up, roll up and die

[Chorus: The Stupendium]
You’re in a digital circus, get back in your seats
It’s the maze in amazing, the trap in trapeze
You know resisting is worthless, so sing to the theme
No hope of escaping, this tent ain’t for fleas
You’re tied in a tightrope, prepare for the fun
Your life as a sideshow has barely begun
So smile to the stalls, at faces yet to be found
It’s up to us all to make the merry go ’round

[Post-Chorus: The Stupendium]
The merry-go-round
The merry-go-round
The merry-go-round

[Verse 4: Cosmo (The Stupendium)]
Living in a theatre isn’t what you’d dream
When you’re caught in a loop in a CG park
Like a video arena by Hideo Kojima
Jumping through hoops for a PTeeth Barnham
I’m starting to lose my grip
As the days start to melt to malaise mayonnaise and they drip
And they pool at my feet and I see the reflection projected that’s meant to be me
But I’ve no recollection of genuine me, I don’t eat, I don’t sleep
It’s just ceaseless, adventure, adventure, repeat and repeat
And I need a reprieve, won’t you please let me leave?
But I don’t even know what I’d be if I leave
And they say, “Take it easy and breathe,” to release the unease
But I’m clearly abandoned to needlessly random scenes
Where it seems I’m the featured attraction
Weeks spent pleading and screaming in tandem
Clearly you see that the teeth are the madman?
Each of them speaking to me of abstraction
But they won’t explain what it means when I ask them
They won’t explain what it means when I ask them
They won’t explain what it means when I ask them
They won’t explain what it means—

[Chorus: The Stupendium]
You’re in a digital circus, get back in your seats
It’s the maze in amazing, the trap in trapeze (Oh, it’s the trap in trapeze)
You know resisting is worthless, so sing to the theme
No lions for taming, it’s you bearing the teeth
You’re tied in a tightrope, prepare for the fun (Prepare for the fun)
Your life as a sideshow has barely begun
So smile to the stalls, at faces yet to be found (Yet to be found)
It’s up to us all to make the merry go ’round

[Post-Chorus: The Stupendium]
The merry-go-round (The merry-go-round)
The merry-go-round (The merry-go-round)
It’s up to us all to make the merry go ’round
(The merry-go-round and around and around)
The merry-go-round (The merry-go-round)
The merry-go-round (The merry-go-round)
End up with the fall, or make the merry go ’round
(The merry-go-round and around and around)

[Outro]
Ahaha, wow, that—
That really didn’t take long at all
Eh, typical self-insert
Speed-ran the whole arc to fit it into a video
Honestly, I’m just **** they got to skip the theme song
But I like the theme song
And they didn’t show me their insect collection
Uh, did Caine sound kind of different to anyone else today?
Or is it just me?
Hahaha, I don’t know what you mean, Pomni
I sounded perfectly normal
Won’t somebody show me their insect collection?