[Verse 1]

Was it all a dream?

Bringing home the shadows in the dark?

Attractions in a lost amusement park again?

Ghosts in the machine

Contorted spirits in their moving graves

Young futures that will never be the same again

[Pre-Chorus]

For how long must this go on?

'Round, 'round on a carousel

Blood on the conveyor belt

Lost souls away from home

Destroy the nightmare by design

Welcome back, this time to

[Chorus]

Break the cycle, come follow me

I'll cut the strings, 'cause you are not a puppet

Break the cycle, you can be free

Your time is through

Break, break, break, break, break

[Verse 2]

Break it down today

Tear the pieces up and burn the shreds

Lay to rest the circus of the dead, the end

It was a mistake in time

But there's no turning back the clock, and

Now it's me who has to be one to stop it

[Pre-Chorus]

How long must they roam?

With instincts they don't understand

Old lives, they dance to forget

Lost souls, away from home

Destroy the nightmare by design

Welcome back, this time to

[Chorus]

Break the cycle, come follow me

I'll cut the strings, 'cause you are not a puppet

Break the cycle, you can be free

Your time is through

Break, break, break, break, break, break, break, break the cycle

[Bridge]

Toilin', toilin', toil, build the maze

Where daddy's little monsters await

Chasing voices, not seeing the flames

That grow to free their souls from their chains

Break the cycle

Goodbye

[Pre-Chorus]

Break, break, break, break, break, break, break

[Chorus]

Break the cycle, come follow me

I'll cut the strings, 'cause you are not a puppet

Break the cycle, you can be free

Your time is through

Break, break, break, break, break, break, break, break the cycle