Your word is paper thin

You told your children they could reach for the stars

Then fed them Ritalin

And popped their futures into VCRs

Now they're walking on the ocean floor thinking they can swim

Now they're walking on the ocean floor thinking they can swim

As the earth swallows them

You convince yourself that they asked for it

Your ignorance must be bliss

Oh!

But for everyone else it's the worst

It's living across from the circus

Running right into your fist

Oh!

And I'm starting to think it's on purpose

Believe it or not, we deserve this

For sleeping at the sideshow

Your paper has no pen

You only parrot your ambassador's lines

And somehow stomach them

Maybe it's easy when the crime scene's blocked by dollar signs

Ayy

You go knocking on the devil's door, he's gonna let you in

You go knocking on the devil's door, he's gonna let you in

And now you live with him

Yet you've convinced yourself he doesn't exist

Your ignorance must be bliss

Oh!

But for everyone else it's the worst

It's living across from the circus

Running right into your fist

Oh!

And I'm starting to think it's on purpose

Believe it or not, we deserve this

For sleeping at the sideshow

Your tent is caving in

You'd rather suffocate than claw your way out

So save the oxygen

Cover your nose and stick your foot in your mouth (ayy)

Now you're sweating as the seventh horn sounds inside your head (sounds inside your head)

You're sweating as the seventh horn sounds inside your head (sounds inside your head)

Until you're deaf to it

'Cause you've convinced yourself it doesn't exist

Your ignorance must be bliss

Oh!

But for everyone else it's the worst

It's living across from the circus

Running right into your fist

Oh!

And I'm starting to think it's on purpose

Believe it or not, we deserve this

For sleeping at the sideshow

Our teeth are pressed against the pavement

Your head is buried in the sand

You pledge allegiance to your placement

And I will never understand

Why we're sleeping at the sideshow

Sleeping in the side show

Still sleeping in the sideshow

Sleeping in the sideshow

I'm sick of sleeping in the sideshow

I'm sick of sleeping in the sideshow

I'm sick of sleeping