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PATRICK:

Ladies and gentlemen and honoured guests

We have gathered here in order to witness our contestants, competitors - all the participants

preparing for the competition.

Hear me now, it's time to race

Hear me now - compete!

Here friends become enemies, and let me confess

No-one can win in this game

LILLIAN:

Can't help myself, it's pulling me

I'm drawn to it, seducing me

And I can't fight back, hopeless to try,

Holding my breath - I have to try

Despite all the odds against me

Realistics wouldn't lie?

(Yet would I?)

Is there a slightest bit of hope,

that tiny chunk of something to hold on to?

CHORUS ALL:

Race against each other, we race against ourselves - tick-tock!

We race to see who's the quickest of all to lose their mind

We compete, we complete tasks in the maze. Hear the tick-tock?

We play along with the madness, avoiding the tick-tock

Race against each other, we race against ourselves - tick-tock!

We race to see who's the quickest of all to lose their mind

We compete, we complete tasks in the maze. Hear the tick-tock?

Run out of time, out of light, out of life - hear the tick-tock!

ODESSA:

Can't help ourselves, we're simply pulled to that spinning wheel

We're all controlled

We can't fight back, hopeless to try

Losing our breath as we're running around

Amazed, lost in this maze,

so dazzled and confused

We are seeing nothing else than maybe the cliff we're clinging on to

CHORUS

LILLIAN & ODESSA:

Owning nothing but our time, so easily gone with the tide

Build up the walls and build them hard

Do not let anyone catch you off-guard

Caught up in errors and forms

Stuck into structures so flawed

The barriers keep them apart

There is no hope nor love left in the heart

CHOIR:

We're playing our part thinking that is just who we are

We are losing our course, we fall overboard, still we go on

Bound by the chains, without will, without aims we are

We are stuck in the games, believing that there's nothing wrong