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This world of brass, of spring and glass

(how long has it been mine?)

It’s hard to be sure, just what life was before

(memories slip away in time)

The time is near, enter the puppeteer

(the time is close I know)

He brings a key, but it won’t set me free

(once more we begin the show)

(Steve bridge)

Dance my love, just dance for a spell

(No one sees you quite like I do)

So dance for me now, dance long and well

(I will hold your grace and keep you)

A music box hell, with a chorus of bells

(I move only for him)

Look through glassy eyes, as if hypnotized

(hope’s light is going dim)

Oh, how I beg and I plead for an end

To the heavens a prayer I send

There’s no reason or time

When the clockwork prison has me

(Steve bridge)

Dance my love, just dance for a spell

(No one sees you quite like I do)

So dance for me now, dance long and well

(I will hold your grace and keep you)

Oh, how I beg and I plead for an end

To the heavens a prayer I send

There’s no reason or time

When the clockwork prison has me

I try to scream - but my lips won’t part

I’d shed a porcelain tear - if I still had a heart

I can’t curse his name - for I lack the breath

So I pray and pray for the sweet release of death

(Steve interlude)

Oh, why must you look at me that way?

Can’t you see that I love you?

I yearn for a heart that I know will be mine one day

Just admit you love me too

The way of all flesh is the way of pain

Hearts and minds can never soar when bound in chains

Go, raise the curtain just for me

One day I will finally be free

You will learn to love

But now the clockwork prison has me

No, I will fight you with every breath

You’ll be mine even beyond death

This heart will always burn

In my clockwork prison for all time