[m/l van
I: Arrivals]
October's a month for boys life is simple, pure and sweet And the foolish youth can The wolf the door
Come hear a tale of And one not long past Jim and Will Halloway Would never be so young anymore
Fury, the seller of lightning rods, the coming storm The light's on in the library, the black'ning sky Charles Halloway sits deep inside, by his books A serious, lonely and sad old man whose has passed him by
And Jim and Will To the carousel Could set their afire Could send them to Hell
[Part II:
Far away, but much too close for calliope is playing Halloway sits in the darkened dark thoughts Son at home he doesn't know Fifty-four years seems so old Throws the carnival's ad in the Flames grow
Long after midnight, awake await them, chances to take Run through the streets to the grounds Hoping to the merry-go-round
AM is midnight for the soul Never is a man so to death The of temptation is at hand Souls are
What's the purpose of a life of What you don't certainly can hurt you step he made he second-guessed Life of
Ride's out of order, no one's Hardly a whisper, hardly a that they're alone, but they're not Gloved encircle, now they are caught
[Part The Carnival]
Late night the boys returned the carousel spin 'round Turning old man into Bringing to town
Carousel turns and Years can scorch and time can Dark's accomplice, age Now a boy accursed
Jim and Will in To whirling world of sin Forward spins the ages, dies and goes to hell
Mister Dark at once That the boys have too much As call for the police He and the wait For their plan to be
return with the law Try to tell them what saw The witch her voice and the old, dead man Seems to come to again
The ruse has worked, no one the Tales of what the boys have The locks eyes; they fear her most; She wishes them a "short sad for both!"
[Part IV:
Late that night the takes to the sky above the town for the boys who know the secret of the carousel A black parade of freaks, and led by Mister Dark, every street for the boys to drag them down to hell
The have seen too much And now death will be their silence The have caskets fashioned for the little boys who hid And Mister halts the procession, seeing the librarian, He asks him who the boys are; fills with as the old man lies
[Part V: The People]
Late that inside the town's old library Circled by arcane and books them for any hint of knowledge. Charles, Jim and
A father's son who doesn't his dad Suddenly he wishes he had As he sees this old lonely man Could be they the only they have
The Carnival has been here times Its history is found between the by every forty years or so Since more two hundred years ago
They upon the sins and fears of men Promise you just what you want and When they're they'll steal your very soul you in their sideshow
And as the church rings They hear the opening The hide for their lives As Mister Dark
VI: Temptations]
Tearing at his To take a chance To right the To live
No No more as a Man to old to his son
He turns the offer Not to exchange his soul For what he wants the
Mister Charles' hand And the witch to give the man A taste of death
(old man) Hear your (old man) your hurt (old man) See bleeding (old man) Stop your
VII: Confrontations]
(Halloway) ten lifetimes to death (Somehow) the courage to laugh (Laughter) in the witch's face (Laughter) burning her wicked (Standing), knowing beaten her back (Smiling), the time is now (Striding) into the street (Knowing) he can save them somehow (Mister Dark) leads the boys into the (Will to be) made into a toy for (Nightshade) to be his for life (After the) carnival's over (Carnival): one last to see (Shoot the witch): gypsy who die (Mister Dark) gazes out the crowd for a (Volunteer): to give it a try
(Halloway) calls out deep in the crowd (Mister Dark) believe his eyes (Halloway) his good picks up the gun (To steady it) he for the help of his son
VIII: Departures]
Far away, trapped in the maze The whole town calls his And Will the spell The dust witch placed his head
Halloway: and son as one As Dark gives them the bullet and Charles carves into a crescent
Mister Dark at the bullet He doesn't yet stand The meaning of Charles has done So he let's the game
But the moon he carved isn't a at all It's his smile the bullet And this totem finds way To the witch's
The gun and the knows this and now is dead!
Chaos spreads, and and Will Run to the maze to Jim walks in Confronted by reflections of a ancient men Staring back and him older A lifetime of regrets A man who knew his son A man whose were never done
Halloway rises The hall of shattered He picks up his son and with him the carnival grounds
Nightshade still upon the Charles and Will help him boy appears saying Mister gone And the of us must give chase
Halloway looks at the young boy He sees him for he is Mister Dark younger again by the Power of the
Charles the boy up Holds him close and his hatred And with grave Lets his heart fill with for his and his son And returns the boy's hate with this and it through Dark's body And he and dies
As the carnival tents The three of spring laughing back to Two boys and one man No longer quite so old as he
Far away but much too for comfort Far but much too close for comfort