The Venetia Fair

Lyrics to A Man Like Me! :
STOP ! This feels like giving up…
was it just too fucking good ?
Watch yourself, mama ! Pack your bags !
I’ll crash into the sun before I let us float away into nothing .
Its cold outside your love,
well who’s fucking crazy now ?
Go ahead bitch ! Scream your lies !
I’ll rip you right out of my head

So here lies sick unsweetened sex appeal .
Its cyclical, your typical routine .
And so I’ll scream this in your face
but I can promise you’ll feel it between your legs .
Place the blame of blatant latent infancy
of intimacy squarely on affairs
where she was barely there emotionally !
And I could blame this on the pills,
or your family and friends but let’s be honest,
you’ve always kind of been a whore…

How’d you see a man like me
and think you were even worthy of his time ?
Take a good hard look,
cause now’s your second chance, yea .
Toss and turn while you’re thinking of me as you sleep;
it’s only natural to cry…
but shut those pretty eyes

Kiss me hard baby breathe through your fucking nose
See what you’re doing to me ?

But still…
Despite the many ways she fucked my head she never blew my mind .
And maybe this ain't what you came to see but I’m broken hearted
And since its my song and my sound and my screams and my fucking words to sing
you’ll sink your rotting gums into this .
Leave how you came if you cant stomach bullshit .
And since its my song and my words I’ll scream this in your face
and you’ll fall in love and you’ll beg for me

How’d you see a man like me
and think you were even worthy of his time ?
Take a good hard look,
cause now’s your second chance, yea .
Toss and turn while you’re thinking of me as you sleep;
it’s only natural to cry…
but shut those pretty eyes

She seemed sincere as each sin seared her tongue .
React, you worthless whore, you worthless whore .
Sink your rotting gums into this
leave how you came if you can’t stomach bullshit
Maybe this ain't what you came to see but I’m broken hearted !
Bitch, you got so many chances !
And so I’ll scream this in your face
but you will feel it right where he fucks you .

Please, love, just break how I want you to break

Lyrics to Let's Just Forget About This! :
Quietly, each breath is a gunshot from your lungs .
You’re mouth’s a smoking barrel when you’ve drank your fill.
It screams its hot outside but its cold in here
I try to get the fuck away as I move to nibble on her ear
Pull her close & you can feel her bones through her skin
but not a sound from her chest.

And so we crashed and we may have lost ourselves;
we’d already lost each other
One week short of a year with him
We should stop let’s just forget about this;
let’s just forget about it all as we lay and lost our heads
we feared we may have found our hearts
Like a line drawn in the sand
let’s just forget about this
let’s just forget about it all

The day dies slow on a night like this,
baby who’d the breaks if we’re asleep at the wheel ?
You left the TV on too long; it started screaming:
Don’t you think about her, don’t you think about her

And so we crashed and we may have lost ourselves;
we’d already lost each other
One week short of a year with him
We should stop let’s just forget about this;
let’s just forget about it all as we lay and lost our heads
we feared we very may have found our hearts
Like a line drawn in the sand
let’s just forget about this
let’s just forget about it all

Don’t you think about her, don’t you think about her

And so we crashed and we may have lost ourselves;
we’d already lost each other
One week short of a year with him
We should stop let’s just forget about this;
let’s just forget about it all as we lay and lost our heads
we feared we may have found our hearts
Like a line drawn in the sand
let’s just forget about this
let’s just forget about it all

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Lyrics to What Do We Have Here? :
Maybe this isn’t exactly what you thought it it’d be,
maybe this is just the thing you’ve been needing .
Now don’t you go that far before you take the very plunge
that soaked your clothes and left you freezing cold .
You’re freezing cold

The last, the last thing you remembered before you lost your heart
was how it felt to watch her break it .
The very best that you could do was before
was to keep the things you felt and saw inside you.
But this is not the same thing

Everything’s just the way you left it,
who knew this pulse had any beat beat beat left in it ?
Beat beat beat beat its getting faster this double thump
intends to beat these boundaries down down down down you can hear them fall

Hey ! Hey ! So sweet she could rot your teeth leave you lying through your gums .
You better bite your lip while you still have the chance .
Why don’t you think about this first before you can't forget about it .
You could do it now or wait to hate to think about it .
Leave her crying at the door .
Turn around but drive right on by

Well everything’s just the way you left it,
who knew this pulse had any beat beat beat left in it ?
Beat beat beat beat its getting faster this double thump
intends to beat these boundaries down

Hey ! Hey ! So sweet she could rot your teeth leave you lying through your gums .
You better bite your lip while you still have the chance .
Why don’t you think about this first before you cant forget about it .
You could do it now or wait to hate to think about it .
Leave her crying at the door .
Turn around but drive right on by

The last, the last thing that I remember before I lost my heart
was how it felt when it stopped beat beat beating

beating

Hey ! Hey ! So sweet she could rot your teeth leave you lying through your gums .
You better bite your lip while you still have the chance .
Why don’t you think about this first before you cant forget about it .
You could do it now or wait to hate to think about it .
Leave her crying at the door .
Turn around but drive right on by

You can hear them fall

Lyrics to Because You're Lonely (The Circus) :
Oh, she’s gifted, she sucked the marrow from his bones
but she got the worst of him.
Oh, born cryptic, each word casts subtleties aside
till they’re naked in the cold, alone .
The telephone rings endlessly ,
and desperately she calls for him to come alone
pick up the phone it’s 4:23 in the morning,
do you think she might just be drunk enough to care ?

They came to his room just to suture the laceration
but the only lonely bone still broken stole their concentration
they said: for learning the end he’s aging elegantly, endlessly ashamed .
She smiled her way through her timid introduction
and the way she made him wait would only aid in the seduction,
she said: a kiss is a kiss despite the endless list of shit you can’t explain

And this is where we should have stayed, but how could I have known ?

And then she fucked me then she told me that she loved me,
and so I told her to shut her stupid mouth
and then I came too quickly cause I believe in love
but babe if this is it I’d rather sleep alone .
You’re only doing this because you’re lonely,
Baby, you’re only doing this because you’re lonely .
But you don’t deserve me .

She came to his home after cut communications
all alone the only soulless whore to wreak the celebration .
She said: I couldn’t care less about the way he cares just take me where you can .
His chest would collapse beneath a wave of realization
and the way he laid awake would barely shake her deep foundation
he said: a fuck is a fuck and you were in my house with him,
six years bitch, and you still play these fucking games ?

And then you told me that you loved me,
and so I told her to shut her stupid mouth
and then I came too quickly cause I believe in love
but babe if this is it I’d rather sleep alone .
You’re only doing this because you’re lonely,
Baby, you’re only doing this because you’re lonely .

Oh, she’s gifted she sucked the marrow from my bones .
oh, you should have seen her, unclothed and unfulfilled alone .
She’s begging, bring me to tears . Watch what you say !
Her fingernails across my back, tearing me apart .

And this is where we should have stayed . By now I should have known

But then she fucked me then she told me that she loved me,
and so I told her to shut her stupid mouth
and then I came too quickly cause I believe in love
but babe if this is it I’d rather sleep alone .
You’re only doing this because you’re lonely .

And then she fucked me then she told me that she loved me,
and so I told her to shut her stupid mouth
and then I came too quickly cause I believe in love
but babe if this is it I’d rather sleep alone .
You’re only doing this because you’re lonely, because you’re lonely .

cause I believe in love but babe if this is it I’d rather sleep alone .
You’re only doing this because you’re such a fucking bitch .
I swear that someday you’ll see you don’t deserve me

Listen close, bitch, keep your distance .
Leave me the fuck alone !

Lyrics to The Ringleader (Nonus The Hobo) :
Two tickets’ll get you a tour of the fair
we’ve got a lot of ground to cover, keep up or get lost .
it’s safe to say that you’ve got no idea what you’re in for .
In time you’ll see what we’ve done here .
Hey kid in the back with the backpack why don’t you come up front ?
get up front . Just give it a rest now,
just give it a rest now you wouldn’t want to
cause a scene un front of all these people

Stop before you lose your mind .
Are you freaking them out ?
Are you speaking out loud ?
All apologies - it seems that this disease
demands the expertise of someone with a knack
for seeing through the wall of bullshit that I’ve built .
Would you take a look at the time ?
The tour has barely just begun,
and yet we’re falling behind!
I could’ve found my way out of the sideshow tent
by now without you slowing me down .
You’re all so ugly inside and out .

Come one come all, come one come all !
this just might be the only audience we’ve ever had so…
Welcome to the death of love and war .
We’ve got the answers (keep up keep up)
We’ve been waiting for you or anyone at all

Let’s start the tour, shall we ?

Look at the animals play .
The sun goes down but nothing’s changed .
They can’t explain why we, as animals, would try to shape the world .
But as performers we won’t stop until its perfect,
and isn’t that just the silliest fucking thing you’ve ever hear ?
But there’s nothing we can do about right ?

Come one come all, come one come all !
this just might be the only audience we’ve ever had so…
Welcome to the death of love and war .
We’ve got the answers (keep up keep up)
We’ve been waiting for you or anyone at all

Shh… the aberrations seep… shall we wake them ?
Ladies and gentlemen, your eyes do not deceive you .
They couldn’t if they tried .
it’s my pleasure to present the most bizarre of human animals,
the freaks, the worthless fucking…

Come one come all, come one come all !
this just might be the only audience we’ve ever had so…
Welcome to the death of love and war .
We’ve got the answers (keep up keep up)
We’ve been waiting for you or anyone at all

Come one come all, come one come all !
Well its almost time to start the show,
so welcome to the end of what you know keep up, keep up (keep up keep up)
We’ve been waiting for anyone at all

Ah, lalalalalalalalalala

It’s almost time to start the show .
So everybody out there, sit down and shut the fuck up


[Nonus the Hobo]
Pardon me, my boy .
A moment’s all I ask of you - for now .
And if you’d offer up your minutes we’d return your change in hours .
Ours is quite a gripping tale of every ray your mind devours .
So take a look inside the flea circus .
Smile along with the fabrication as long as you can shelve your disbelief .
Breathe in each and every word from painted lips .
We know you’ll keep these exaggerated features in your head

Lyrics to The Animals Tent (Decimus The Tramp) :
Look at the animals play!
Just settle down and we will bring out everything we’ve tried to tame .
We’ve done amazing things but
as you’ll imagine there’re some things
that are never gonna bend to our will

So here comes Sekhmet the hon; the tamer’s riled her up
Look in her eyes, look in her eyes
Watch out! She’s coming
Step back! Right there
Now, tamer, do your worst

Look how she’s stalking her quarry
One single breath’s all it takes
I know it seems like she’s calming down but make no mistake
Just when he thinks he can break her
cubs come to ravage his flesh .
See for yourself!

We just keep pushing it pushing it
pushing it pushing it pushing it
We can’t kill what we don’t know
And this is what we want, so it’s what you get

Up next is Arcas and Callisto!
The bears on tricycles ride in once a day around this time;
it’s just a portion of their trip around the fair grounds
Here comes Airavata; the elephant controls the rainclouds,
his skin the rumbling earth (Airavata!)
I can see the tear in you but we can’t control him…

We just keep pushing it pushing it
pushing it pushing it pushing it
We can’t kill what we don’t know
With all our infinite minds
e’ll just keep breeding and bleeding
and fucking and fighting and dying
just like every single other soul
But what a way to go

You’ll get just a taste then it’s taken away .
Stay seated! Here comes Pauline’s life machines!
You’ll get just a taste then it’s taken away
Stay seated, stay seated, stay seated!
They’re squaring off, it’s metal versus flesh .
If steel is the next step in our evolution
does skin stand a fighting chance?

We just keep pushing it pushing it
pushing it pushing it pushing it
We can’t kill what we don’t know
With all our infinite minds we’ll just
keep breeding and bleeding
and fucking and fighting and dying
just like every single other soul

We started sleeping to dream…
And we keep tossing and turning
and tossing and turning and tossing
and turning and bleeding
and fucking and dying and
bleeding and fucking and dying .
This madness is quite a way to go


[Decimus The Tramp]
Nothing else could get this far,
but what foolish animals we are to try and tame the stars .
Breathe in each and every word from painted lips,
we know you’ll keep these exaggerated features in your head .
Performers wait . Just a knock at that door .
Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock Knock !

Lyrics to The Performers Tent (Mortus The Bum) :
What was that ? Just take a look;
it seems we've got ourselves a congregation…
Stop that knocking ! All this work and yet they keep from flocking .
Every single day in here is all the same to me,
but things are looking up… since you've arrived…
Places ! Places ! Performers just try and keep these people in their seats !

Up here onlookers - the tight rope rigid, fixed as perfect annulus…
I'll find the time to breathe when I fall .
We'll get that cleaned up shortly, we've got our cemetery in the back .
I'll admit to a rocky start but it must go on !

We're bound to impress you yet .
We're bound to the acts we've always known without the time
or the drive to leave it behind .
So sit down in your seats and watch us work until we can't stand .
We could've stood for more than this…

Hey ! Mr.-Show-Me-Something-Splendid - Jocastan Acrobats are ready to perform .
Did you ever think I would think you were the only one to want to see them fail ?
Swing swing, one mistake and you die a murderer .
The best you can do is pray and to pass them on .
Just wait for the human cannonball .
He can't enjoy this place when he's flying straight over our heads but…

We're bound to impress you yet .
We're bound to the acts we've always known without the time
or the drive to leave it behind .
So sit down in your seats and watch us work until we can't stand .
We could've stood for more than this…

If all the jugglers could juggle the jugglers do you think they'd ever hit the ground ?
If one of the jugglers lost faith in the others do you think we'd even hear the sound ?
If all the jugglers could juggle the jugglers do you think they'd ever hit the ground ?
If one of the jugglers lost faith in the others do you think they'd even recognize that…

We're bound to impress you yet .
We're bound to the acts we've always known without the time
or the drive to leave it behind .
So sit down in your seats and watch us work until we can't stand .
We could've stood for more than this…

(introducing the human cannonball)


[Mortus The Bum]
Leave the flying to the seeds; we all give up our time eventually .
Breathe in each and every word from painted lips,
we know you'll keep these exaggerated features in your head .
We know you'll

Lyrics to Gullinkambi's Return :
Fill their heads with bold assumptions thick with pantomime corruption .
Surely they proved more disruptive than these words are interruptive .
Painted visage veils intention, so I've staged this intervention .
Choking now on revelation, gasp for breaths of blind elation .

This is the recipe for breathing fucking fallacies:
a simple blend of fear and misdirection .
Crusted eyelids over every single rod and cone and twinkle in their eyes .
It's all been written in the scars !
So fuck what you've seen

We're at the end of our rope
without a second chance to leave a few more feet,
enough to wrap around tour necks .
We'd hang our bodies from the clouds and tear
what's left of your paradise down !

This is the recipe for honestly and open sores:
a simple blend of painful complications .
Sick confessions cover every single wave of sound that echoes in my ears .
It's all recorded in these songs .
So tell me how I'd ever hear these words and I suppose I'll tell you
where we've stashed away those insolent freaks .
Here's your fucking hint !

Lyrics to The Sideshow Tent :
This is it, right behind the curtain .
Every single second brings a second chance !
Tic tic tic toc ! This is right where they belong .
Right ? Tic tic tic toc talking to yourself never did a damn thing,
and yet I do the very same thing each and every chance that I get .
It's time to raise those pretty heads !
Keep those greasy little hands off the glass
and keep your feet behind the dotted line .
You're doing fine, it's just we don't have a clue
how they'll choose to react to you, an audience .

AHH! Just look what you've done !
This is exactly what we feared and yet we're still so unprepared…
Their faces crack open

The artistry of debauchery !
If we're all endlessly wasting it, they can't take it away !
We couldn't hope for anything more than this…
Stop fucking staring at me, dream your hysterical dreams .
Since this is the way things are explain the way things seem .
Or anything more than this

They say that pretty faces age pretty quickly .
Beautiful eyes grab you to fill idle time and time again, all alone .
You used to feel I was a beautiful liar .

So now it's coming to this ?!
Each one tripping on the light fantastic toe .
Come on you sheep skinned liars !
Dress up those skeletons and sway !
You think you're terrified now ?
Just wait and see, our eyes are open .

The artistry of debauchery !
If we're all endlessly wasting it, they can't take it away !
We couldn't hope for anything more than this…
Stop fucking staring at me, dream your hysterical dreams .
Since this is the way things are explain the way things seem .
Or anything more than this

Or anything more than this

Save yourself . The months have always turned to years .
Save yourself . The face of each and every fear .
Save yourself, save yourself .
Smile along with the fabrication as long as you can shelve your disbelief .

We've had our day .
If we're all endlessly wasting it, they can't take it away .
So take a seat by the broken mirrors, and take a look at my face .
If you'd just quit your screaming, baby, you'd see you are not afraid of me .
You are not afraid of me…

The artistry of debauchery !
If we're all endlessly wasting it, they can't take it away !
We couldn't hope for anything more than this…
Stop fucking staring at me, dream your hysterical dreams .
Since this is the way things are explain the way things seem .
Or anything more than this

Lyrics to The Clowns And The Escape :
Move in time . Alone we're all afraid,
So we'll leave the well enough alone .
Now a slight confession:
We're not really sure where you've been or where we'll go
but where you are is fine for now .
Breathe in each and every word from painted lips .
So listen close, it's gonna be harder than you think to leave this place;
let me explain

So is that what you want ?
Just a look then you're on your way out ?
Well I'm afraid I might have some bad news .
Can't you tell this is where you were born to perform ?
Where would you rather be ?

Breathe in each and every word from painted lips
we know you'll keep these exaggerated features in your head .
We know you'll…
Sit down ! Christ ! Fuck ! Just do what you're told .
Leave the thinking to me .

God, why fight the end ?
Every step form this place leads you deeper through darkness
and think - why was It designed with no exits at all ?
Can't you tell you were born to perform ?
Where would you rather be ?

Breathe in each and every word from painted lips,
we know you'll see this here's where the sun meets the ocean to burn up the sky
leaving black ash behind so you've got to find your role - something to live by .
Did you really think you wouldn't keep these exaggerated features in your head ?
You're home now…

Sit down ! Christ ! Fuck ! Just do what you're told .
Leave the thinking to me .

Sit down, son, please just do what you're told .
Leave the thinking to me .

Pardon me my boy a moments all I ask of you - for now .
So you could try your luck with the animals,
long as Gullinkambi agrees, or join up with the performers
and well… anything but those insolent freaks .

And that's all he'd like me to say…

Breathe in each and every word from painted lips,
we know you'll see this here's where the sun meets the ocean to burn up the sky
leaving black ash behind so you've got to find your role - something to live by .
Did you really think you wouldn't keep these exaggerated features in your head ?
You're home now…

Hey ! Where do you think you're going to go ?
Hey ! What did he say ?
Looks like he's running away !
Stop ! Please, I promise you'll end up right back here…

Lyrics to I'm Still Amazed :
"Save it!"
She stopped and soberly said,
"That sort of sexless exclamation simply doesn't seem to sit too well with me
So if you're gonna sell it better
Give it some melody, baby,
Give it some melody, baby."
OH!

And so I straightened my posture.
I bent and belted my tones.
And now we're cookin' with fire, babe, but I gotta say

I'm still amazed the way you barely blame yourself.
Baby, I'm still amazed that there's always somebody else.
And I'm still amazed you stomached it.

I read your book, babe, cover to cover.
You covet carelessly, then cleverly come clean incompletely,
Completely leaving me believing
Even when I've seen the treason with my eyes.
It's like you're some kind of goddamn sociopath.
OH!

Past the point of redemption.
Painful, permanent scars!
Now we're cooking with fire, babe, but I gotta say

I'm still amazed the way you barely blame yourself!
Baby, I'm still amazed that there's always somebody else.
And I'm still amazed the way you barely blame yourself.
(Tell me, how did you stand the smell when you burned my body down?)
Baby, I'm still amazed that there's always somebody else.
(Tell me, how did you stand the smell when you burned me?)
And I'm still amazed you stomached it.

OH!

Past the point of redemption.
Painful, permanent scars!
(Give it some melody, baby.
Give it some melody, baby.
Give it some melody, baby.
Give it some melody, baby.)

Now we're cooking with fire, babe, but I gotta say
I'm still amazed the way you barely blame yourself!
Baby, I'm still amazed that there's always somebody else.
And I'm still amazed the way you barely blame yourself.
(Tell me, how did you stand the smell when you burned my body down?)
Baby, I'm still amazed that there's always somebody else.
(Tell me, how did you stand the smell when you burned me?)
I'm still amazed you stomached it.

Lyrics to A Lady And A Tramp :
Harlot, you weave your stolen yarns with bitter, borrowed tongues.
As it knots up, you sit and wonder, "Am I knitting this or am I just tongue-tied?"
She sees the tangled strands and understands she's wrong.
But there's something, something stopping her from shutting her fucking mouth.
You turned an artificial ego into housing for a heart officially condemned,
But who'd blame you?
You're not the first and you're sure not the only one,

But you may have missed it,
And you're not some winsome misfit
Speaking up for all of womankind.

She's satisfied to be a lady and a tramp,
But there's something she just doesn't understand.
Oh, god, the things she says!
She wants to be a lady and a tramp,
But she'd never show the lady to the band.

Harlot, you misinterpret every quip at every turn.
It's impressive, exchanging strength for a thick shield of ignorance,

But you may have missed it,
And you're not some winsome misfit
Speaking up for all of womankind.

She's satisfied to be a lady and a tramp,
But there's something she just doesn't understand.
Oh, god, the things she says!
She wants to be a lady and a tramp,
But she'd never show the lady to the band.

She's got her flaws.
She's something else.
I know it's all my fault and I should look the other way,
But you're the trainwreck, baby,

And I'm watching you burn!

She's satisfied to be a lady and a tramp,
But there's something she just doesn't understand.
Oh, god, the things she says!
She wants to be a lady and a tramp,
But she'd never show the lady to the band.
She'd never show the lady to the band.

Lyrics to You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch :
You're a mean one Mr. Grinch
You really are a heel.
You're as cuddly as a cactus,
And as charming as an eel,
Mr. Grinch!

You're a bad banana,
With a greasy black peel!

You're a monster, Mr. Grinch!
Your heart's an empty hole.
Your brain is full of spiders.
You've got garlic in your soul,
Mr. Grinch!

I wouldn't touch you
With a thirty-nine-and-a-half foot pole!

You're a vile one, Mr. Grinch!
You have termites in your smile.
You have all the tender sweetness
Of a seasick crocodile,
Mr. Grinch!

Given the choice between the two of you,
I'd take the seasick crocodile!

You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch!
You're a nasty, wasty skunk!
Your heart is full of unwashed socks.
Your soul is full of gunk,
Mr. Grinch!

The three words that best describe you
Are as follows, and I quote,
"Stink, stank, stunk!"

You're a rotter, Mr. Grinch!
You're the king of sinful sots!
Your heart's a dead tomato,
Splotched with moldy, purple spots,
Mr. Grinch!

Your soul is an appalling dump-heap,
Overflowing with the most disgraceful
Assortment of deplorable rubbish imaginable,
Mangled-up in tangled-up knots!

You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch!
With a nauseous super naus!
You're a crooked jerky jockey,
And you drive a crooked hoss,
Mr. Grinch!

You're a three-decker sauerkraut
And toadstool sandwich,
With arsenic sauce!