You were the sugar-coated poison in my tea
Now you're the carnival clown with a chainsaw grin
The walls are closing in like a hunter's snare
But I'm the honey badger baring steel teeth
Hear the throat-sung warning hum
Like gravel grinding underfoot
One step closer to the edge
The spotlight's burning red
Dancing on shattered glass in stiletto heels
Every slice a symphony every wound surreal
Laughing through the gasoline haze
As the circus tent goes up in flames
Dancing on shattered glass in stiletto heels
Every scar a story every break a thrill
Spinning like a blade in the strobe light's glare
Till the noose snaps and we drop through the air
Your smile was a switchblade in velvet glove
Now the steel sings where the silk used to touch
The calliope's screaming out of tune
But I'm waltzing with the devil to a war drum's boom
Hear the throat-sung warning hum
Like gravel grinding underfoot
One step closer to the edge
The spotlight's burning red
Dancing on shattered glass in stiletto heels
Every slice a symphony every wound surreal
Laughing through the gasoline haze
As the circus tent goes up in flames
Dancing on shattered glass in stiletto heels
Every scar a story every break a thrill
Spinning like a blade in the strobe light's glare
Till the noose snaps and we drop through the air
Your smile was a switchblade in velvet glove
Now the steel sings where the silk used to touch
The calliope's screaming out of tune
But I'm waltzing with the devil to a war drum's boom
Hear the throat-sung warning hum
Like gravel grinding underfoot
One step closer to the edge
The spotlight's burning red
Dancing on shattered glass in stiletto heels
Every slice a symphony every wound surreal
Laughing through the gasoline haze
As the circus tent goes up in flames
Dancing on shattered glass in stiletto heels
Every scar a story every break a thrill
Spinning like a blade in the strobe light's glare
Till the noose snaps and we drop through the air
The trapeze wires hum like live power lines
Our shadows knife-dance on the big top's spine
No net below when the reckoning comes
Just a gunpowder tango and a deafening drum
Dancing on shattered glass in stiletto heels Every slice a symphony every wound surreal
Laughing through the gasoline haze
As the circus tent goes up in flames
Dancing on shattered glass in stiletto heels
Every scar a story every break a thrill
Spinning like a blade in the strobe light's glare
Till the noose snaps and we drop through the air
