Clutch - Circus Maximus lyrics

Will you be entertained by beast and knives?
Vital mentalisms will blow your minds!
Cthulu’s red headed step child
Quite the precocious babe
We like to keep it on the DL
Because our clientele prefers it that way
The seven legged sow will
See to the after-show
Don’t you think the candelabra
Gives a pleasant glow?

Now may I present to you the basilisk?
Please dawn 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
Please produce your access pass
No photographs please
Some of our guests are…how shall
I say? Hyperbolic VIP there is a velvet room
For the discriminating pack
Celebrities and tentacles regard the
Beast with two backs

The seven legged sow will
See to the after-show
Don’t you think the candelabra
Gives a pleasant glow?

Paparazzi! World wide video debut!
Paparazzi! World wide video debut!
Paparazzi! World wide video debut!
Paparazzi! World wide video debut!

And just when you thought it
Could get no stranger
May I present the semblance
Of a Scandanavian doppelganger
From the frozen depths of a forgotten fjord
The never sleeping for want of eating
Unholy stench of the manticore