Paper Doll Playground

There's a key beneath the floorboard where the dust began to rise

Keeping secrets in a shoebox from the tired,

grown-up eyes I was playing in the garden building houses made of

clay But the shadows grew so heavy that they chased the light

away

And the ticking of the clock gets louder now (tick,

tock)

Tell me how to make it stop some way,

somehow

Oh, the carousel is spinning,

but the music is too slow

And the wooden horses running with nowhere left to go

Lost inside the nursery,

we're hiding in the dark

Trying to remember how to find the missing spark (hahaha)

We draw monsters on the wallpaper to keep the walls awake Counting

up the little promises we knew that they would break No one

hears the porcelain doll that fell upon the floor So we lock

the attic window and we bolt the heavy door

Spinning round, spinning round,

don't look down

In a dress made of paper and a broken paper crown (ahhhh)

Oh, the carousel is spinning,

but the music is too slow And the wooden horses running with

nowhere left to go

Lost inside the nursery,

we're hiding in the dark

Trying to remember how to find the missing spark

Now the music box is winding down...

(hush

now)