Circus Maximus

By Clutch

On Robot Hive / Exodus

Released on June 21, 2005

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[Verse 1]

Will you be entertained by beast and knives?

Vital mentalisms will blow your minds!

Cthulhu's red-headed stepchild, quite the precocious babe

We like to keep it on the DL because our clientele prefers it that way


[Pre-Chorus]

The seven-legged sow will see you to the after-show

Don't you think the candelabra gives a pleasant glow?


[Chorus 1]

Now, may I present to you the basilisk?

Please don your goggles if you wish to resist

From the fiery depths of the planet's core

The never-sleeping for-want-of-eating unholy stench of the manticore


[Verse 2]

Produce your access pass, no photographs, please

Some of our guests are, how shall I say? Hyperbolic V.I.P

There is a velvet room for the discriminating pack

Celebrities and tentacles regard the beast with two backs


[Pre-Chorus]

The seven-legged sow will see you to the after-show

Don't you think the candelabra gives a pleasant glow?


[Bridge]

Paparazzi! Worldwide video debut!

Paparazzi! Worldwide video debut!

Paparazzi! Worldwide video debut!

Paparazzi! Worldwide video debut!


[Chorus 2]

And just when you thought it could get no stranger

May I present the semblance of a Scandinavian doppelgänger

From the frozen depths of a forgotten fjord

The never-sleeping for-want-of-eating unholy stench of the manticore