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ACT 1: THE CLASSICAL ILLUSION
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2. Circles In The Sky

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Intro

Verse 1

I’m watching the stars from the safety of a cage I built alone

Counting the seeds of a legacy that’s carved in ancient stone

Tracing the line where the shadow and the light begin to blur

Holding my breath for a motion I’m certain will occur

Is it perfection or a ghost behind a cold façade?

Playing a part in the silence of a long-forgotten god

I built a fortress just to keep the heavy world from pushing in

Waiting for the moment where the end and start begin

Pre-Chorus

The sky is turning slowly 'round the center of my mind

Leaving all the wreckage of the truth so far behind

I’m reaching for the height…

To keep the dark inside…

Chorus

I’m drawing circles in the sky to keep the truth from leaking out

I’m living in the silence of a beautifully crafted doubt

We are the center of the world, the only soul that we can see

Just a prisoner of the patterns in this fake reality

REALITY!

Every breath we take’s a revolution in the dark

Trying to find the light inside a dying wooden spark

Verse 2

Epicycles turning in a cold mechanical dance

Leaving all the secrets of the universe to chance

Measuring the distance just to justify the why

Painting our own version of the truth across the sky

We are the anchor, the vanity, the fortress made of glass

Watching all the evidence of everything just pass

Locked inside the motion, trapped within a hollow frame

Calling out the silence by a different, borrowed name

Pre-Chorus

The sky is turning slowly 'round the center of my mind

Leaving all the wreckage of the truth so far behind

I’m reaching for the height…

To keep the dark inside!

Chorus

I’m drawing circles in the sky to keep the truth from leaking out

I’m living in the silence of a beautifully crafted doubt

We are the center of the world, the only soul that we can see

Just a prisoner of the patterns in this fake reality

REALITY!

Every breath we take’s a revolution in the dark

Trying to find the light inside a dying wooden spark

Bridge

Yeah! Clockwork gears — watch them turn!

A lesson in vanity we never learn!

You want the sun to bow? You want the stars to move?

Chasing a truth you could never prove!

(Spinning 'round… spinning 'round…)

CENTRIC! STATIC! The world stands still!

CENTRIC! STATIC! A triumph of the will!

IT’S A TRIUMPH OF THE WILL!

Final Chorus

I’m drawing circles in the sky to keep the truth from leaking out

I’m living in the silence of a beautifully crafted doubt

We are the center of the world, the only soul that we can see

Just a prisoner of the patterns in this fake reality

Post-Chorus

Everything is spinning 'round the anchor of our pride

There is nowhere left to run and nowhere left to hide

Everything is spinning 'round the anchor of our pride…

Outro

The only world we’ll ever know…

Everything is spinning 'round…

The center of it all…