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Welcome to the Freak Show


Welcome to the freak show

You're invited to join us

Just don't hide yourself

Or the audience will grow bored

 

You need to keep it interesting

Keep it exciting

Keep it new...

 

But keep your "ordinary" ways

Away from here

 

Keep talking

Keep laughing

Keep secrets

Keep quiet

 

They're laughing at you?

No no, they wouldn't dare

There too scared of the monster

That's lurking under their skin

 

They watch us "freaks" 

Because we're "so different from them",

They laugh only at themselves

When they laugh at you

 

They see a reflection of what they want to be

Reflected upon your "outer-you",

Because they hide under "being normal"

What they wish to be, can't become true.

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