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Carousel of story time

Children slumber in distant rhymes

Sleepwalk of the living dead

The rocking horse rears it's head

Midnight masquerade

Tin soldiers on parade

A chill sweeps the children's room

Colder than their mothers womb

Chorus

In the playroom of poison dreams

I hear the children's poison screams

The mystery is burning on and on

Bridge

We see the truth inside the lie

I'm the spider, you're the fly

The children see the meaning of the song

And what's wrong, yeah

Shadows fall across the wall

A toy soldier bugle calls

Nursery serenity

Shattered by obscenity

Puppets dance with burning strings

A china doll sits up and sings

Released from the statues stance

Reborn in human form

Chorus

Bridge

Solo

Whoa - whoa - oh oh