Colors, transfiguration The absurd, the freak Come, come, ladies and gentlemen Merry-go-round and sweets Welcome to this crazy show Insane asylum for the voices of madness Poetry and folly as antidotes to life Vortex of vampires and blood-soaked nurses This is the carnival of doom This journey begins after darkness The beats will soon dance in the fire This is the carnival of doom Colors, transfiguration The absurd, the freak Come, come, ladies and gentlemen Merry-go-round and sweets Fire-eaters, teddy bears Prizes and guns, tumblers of shadows Contortionists of the spirit Acrobats of destiny You'll experiment the fascination Of this Nirvana of noise Jugglers of life playing with tarots The tarots of hope A Nirvana of noise This is the carnival of doom