The Big Tent Show

"The Big Tent Show" is the ninth track of Uncle Raven's Super Happy Fun Time Carnival.

## Performers

Paul Shapera as "Raven" and "Hank"

Lauren Osborn as "Miss Helen"

Psyche Chimere as "Han-Mi"

## Lyrics

[RAVEN:]

When the story of your life becomes unfurled and you find

That it was just a fabrication

And all you loved or thought you had or thought you lost

It was an exercise in baseline exploitation

Whatever hero's noble journey that you're on is just

A drunken run from tears to degradation

And all you'll ever know is desperation

As you try to find distraction to avoid stagnation

Stay with me

Stay with me

Stay with me

Stay with me

All your trials, big and small

They mean nothing after all

It means nothing, it means nothing after all

All the good men you have known

They will all die alone

It means nothing, it means nothing after all

The truth behind your life's not even worth the time

It takes to make a wish in hopeful expectation

Yours is a truth filled with abuse and patricide

And years spent scrounging on the streets in deprivation

Here with me I offer so much more than love

Or a useless life of quiet desperation

Emancipation of reality is yours

It's deviation and the joys of domination

Stay with me

Stay with me

Stay with me

Stay with me

All your trials big and small

They mean nothing after all

It means nothing, it means nothing after all

All the good men you have known

They will all die alone

It means nothing, it means nothing after all

All your trials big and small

They mean nothing after all

It means nothing, it means nothing after all

All the good men you have known

They will all die alone

It means nothing, it means nothing after all

[HELEN:]

You must survive this

You'll get through this somehow

You'll survive this

Just breathe and let it out

Don't break now

Just wait until this ends

Just survive this

Then go and find your friends

This is madness

Maybe he'll make a mistake

There is always

The chance you can escape

If you hurt him

Will he hurt you even worse?

We could kill him

I think I did this once before

You must survive this

You must get through this right now

You must survive this

Just breathe and let it out

[RAVEN:]

Helen, don't you want me?

All the lovers that you choose

They will all one day leave you

Helen, don't you want me?

Leave you nothing but alive

And with nothing more than time

Helen, don't you want me?

Oh nothing more than time

Is all you'll ever find

[HAN-MI:]

You will leave her alone

You will go

You will step down

Or I swear that you will know

Such sorrow, grief you can't believe

Screams of anguish and of strife

And in your torment and in tears

You'll scream and cry

To end your life, I'm Han-Mi, I

You will beg me then to die

Beg me cease, unholy things

Pain and woe you will know

If you do not let her go

[RAVEN:] *(spoken)*

Ooooooh, you are magnificent. Wow did I screw this one up. It wasn't Helen that broke the cabaret, was it? It was you. You're the one. Oh I'm such an idiot. Do you even appreciate what you just did? You changed the narrative.

[HAN-MI:] *(spoken)*

I want the door out of here opened.

[RAVEN:] *(spoken)*

Well, it's not me you should be asking, if you understood this sort of thing better, which I could have shown y... oh, that ship has sailed... you'd know this is exactly the sort of moment when this kind of...

[HANK:] *(spoken)*

Wha... wh... w...

[HELEN:] *(spoken)*

Hank, what's wrong?

[HANK:] *(spoken)*

I don't... w... we... we wish to initiate confrontation. Confrontation...