The Greatest Show On Earth şarkı sözleri

It forged a thousand images, the tides love confessed The quill of time that scribed these lines is softly laid to rest Tortured souls in the night cast in endless roles playing endless scenes The light gleams in their eyes, incandescent beams of hope Love controls every line, every curve and seam, every scripted theme The blind leading the blind, the condemned in streets of gold Kites lost on the wind feel the dark closing in, candlelight burning slowly down Rain falling down like a heartbeat, pounds on the windowpane Slaves, as we dance in the dark, rebound and begin again Too scared, impaired, on battlegrounds that lead us to despair Maimed, as we're bound in the backstreets, drowned as the winter came Shamed, to the sound of the harpies, hounds and the hurricane We dare to share, but love just won't release us from its lair God knows it's time Cameras roll and rewind but the silver screens just reflect our screams The knife, cold and precise cutting each of us from birth Love is bold, never wise it's a desperate dream as we drift downstream A life feeding the lie, it's the greatest show on earth Those crossed by a sin, torn apart from within are bereft in the here and now Rain falling down like a heartbeat, pounds on the windowpane Slaves, as we dance in the dark, rebound and begin again Too scared, impaired, on battlegrounds that lead us to despair Maimed, as we're bound in the backstreets, drowned as the winter came Shamed, to the sound of the harpies, hounds and the hurricane We dare to share, but love just won't release us from its lair God knows it's time