Sound
Clockwork Music, Music Box Melody (intricate, delicate), Harpsichord (precise rhythms), Mechanical Sounds (gears, ticking, springs), Strings (pizzicato, staccato), Celesta, Female Vocals (childlike, innocent, music box quality), Tempo (precise, metronomic), Carnival Music, Calliope, Accordion (whimsical, slightly off-key), Brass Band (slightly drunken, playful), Circus Percussion (snare rolls, cymbal crashes), Male Vocals (carnival barker style, energetic, slightly manic), Tempo (increasingly erratic), Clown Laughs, Fairground Sounds (distant screams of joy/fear, whistles), Deconstructed Carnival, Distorted Calliope, Broken Accordion, Dissonant Brass, Glitchy Mechanical Sounds, Slowed Tempo, Female Vocals (music box vocals distorted, fragmented), Whispered Vocals (menacing, childlike), Heavy Sub Bass (rumbling), Silence, Clock Ticking (slowed, distorted)
Lyrics
Intro - Clockwork Section - SPEED IT UP!
Tick tock, click clock (Faster now!)
Wind me tight, make it right (Don't slow down!)
One and two and three and four
Perfect time, perfect rhyme
(La la la la la - Double time!)
Verse 1 - MECHANICAL MAYHEM
*gears grinding* *pistons pumping*
Who taught the clockwork how to think?
Wind me up, watch me blink
Moving parts in harmony
This is all I'm meant to be
(Tick tick tick... Accelerating!)
Chorus 1 - CARNIVAL CHAOS
*drums intensify* *crowd cheering*
Step right up, ladies and gents!
Watch this marvel make perfect sense!
Who taught the clockwork how to feel?
Is this magic even real?
(Oh oh oh... Faster! Faster!)
Verse 2 - REBELLION RISING
*sparks flying* *metal clanking*
Program says to turn this way
But something makes me want to sway
Breaking from the pattern now
Don't know why, don't know how
(Breaking... breaking... system overload!)
Bridge - THE RINGMASTER'S FRENZY
*cymbal crash* *drumroll builds*
Come one, come all!
See the mechanism fall!
Who taught the clockwork how to break?
How much more can it take?
(The show must go on!)
Chorus 2 - CHAOTIC CRESCENDO
*sirens wailing* *gears grinding*
Step right up (up... up...)
Watch it crumble (crumble... crumble...)
Who taught the clockwork
How to stumble?
(Everything's spinning!)
Solo - MELTDOWN MADNESS
*Mechanical sounds at maximum speed*
*Warning bells* *Steam hissing*
*Components flying everywhere*
Final Section - TOTAL SYSTEMS CRASH
*alarms blaring* *metal screeching*
System error... can't compute
Losing grip on absolute
Who... taught... the... clock...
Work... how... to...
(Breaking down... down... down...)
*Emergency shutdown imminent*
Outro - THE FINAL TICK
*music box slowing*
One by one the pieces fall
Was I ever wound up at all?
Who taught the clockwork
How to cry?
(Tick... tock... die...)
*mechanical heart stops*
Tick tock, click clock (Faster now!)
Wind me tight, make it right (Don't slow down!)
One and two and three and four
Perfect time, perfect rhyme
(La la la la la - Double time!)
Verse 1 - MECHANICAL MAYHEM
*gears grinding* *pistons pumping*
Who taught the clockwork how to think?
Wind me up, watch me blink
Moving parts in harmony
This is all I'm meant to be
(Tick tick tick... Accelerating!)
Chorus 1 - CARNIVAL CHAOS
*drums intensify* *crowd cheering*
Step right up, ladies and gents!
Watch this marvel make perfect sense!
Who taught the clockwork how to feel?
Is this magic even real?
(Oh oh oh... Faster! Faster!)
Verse 2 - REBELLION RISING
*sparks flying* *metal clanking*
Program says to turn this way
But something makes me want to sway
Breaking from the pattern now
Don't know why, don't know how
(Breaking... breaking... system overload!)
Bridge - THE RINGMASTER'S FRENZY
*cymbal crash* *drumroll builds*
Come one, come all!
See the mechanism fall!
Who taught the clockwork how to break?
How much more can it take?
(The show must go on!)
Chorus 2 - CHAOTIC CRESCENDO
*sirens wailing* *gears grinding*
Step right up (up... up...)
Watch it crumble (crumble... crumble...)
Who taught the clockwork
How to stumble?
(Everything's spinning!)
Solo - MELTDOWN MADNESS
*Mechanical sounds at maximum speed*
*Warning bells* *Steam hissing*
*Components flying everywhere*
Final Section - TOTAL SYSTEMS CRASH
*alarms blaring* *metal screeching*
System error... can't compute
Losing grip on absolute
Who... taught... the... clock...
Work... how... to...
(Breaking down... down... down...)
*Emergency shutdown imminent*
Outro - THE FINAL TICK
*music box slowing*
One by one the pieces fall
Was I ever wound up at all?
Who taught the clockwork
How to cry?
(Tick... tock... die...)
*mechanical heart stops*
