the freak show Lyrics
If I was to die tomorrow
Would you come to my freak show tonight?
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
(Yeah, yeah, yeah)
4, 3, 2, 1
[Refrain]
I wanna get buzzed on the weekend
Get messed up and depressed with my friends
'Cause I don't need, no, I don't need you
So I'ma take a drug on the weekend
Take myself out of my supressed head
'Cause I don't need, no, I don't need you
[Verse 1]
See, I've been hurt ten times before
I've hurt myself and so much more
They took me to the seventh floor
Threw me right off (Threw me right off)
See, everybody wants to be a little like us
But they don't understand all the things we've done
They will try to change you 'cause they are so afraid of you
But hold on, hold on
'Cause faux plastic dolls
With their hands and their ribbons
Will strangle us all
And they'll all be forgiven
I refuse to be taken the typical way
So welcome to the freak show
I hope that you find yourself today
[Refrain]
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
I wanna get buzzed on the weekend
Get messed up and depressed with my friends
'Cause I don't need, no, I don't need you
So I'ma take a drug on the weekend
Take myself out of my suppressed head
'Cause I don't need, no, I don't need you
[Verse 2]
See, I'm asleep but wide awake
I pray the Lord my soul will break
It's right there on the table
So take it off, take it off
See, everybody wants to be a little like them
But they don't understand how it all will end
They will try to break you 'cause they are so ashamed of you
But hold on, hold on
'Cause faux plastic dolls
With their hands and their ribbons
Will strangle us all
And they'll all be forgiven
I refuse to be taken the typical way
So welcome to the freak show
I hope that you find yourself today
[Bridge]
Times will change and you might break
But we'll go on, we'll go on, I believe it
We'll go on, we'll go on, I believe it
Times will change and you might break
But we'll go on, we'll go on, I believe it
We'll go on, we'll go on, I believe it
Times will change (Yeah)
And you might break (I believe it, yeah)
But we'll go on, we'll go on, I believe it
We'll go on, we'll go on, I believe it
Times will change (Yeah)
And you might break (I believe it, yeah)
But we'll go on, we'll go on, I believe it
We'll go on, we'll go on, I believe it
Times will change and you might break
But we'll go on, we'll go on, I believe it
We'll go on, we'll go on, I believe it
Times will change and you might break
But we'll go on, we'll go on, I believe it
We'll go on, we'll go on, I believe it
You, I believe in
You
Times will change
And you might break
But I will spend my life believing in you!
About
Originally titled “welcome to the freak show”, “the freak show” is a song released by YUNGBLUD on the sophomore studio album, “weird”, on 4 December 2020.
In an interview with The Aquarian, YUNGBLUD stated:
There’s a song at the end of the album called “A Freak Show” that is like fucking [Green Day’s] “Jesus of Suburbia” or “Bohemian Rhapsody” where it has like five different parts to it.
Q&A
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This was like, ‘OK, I’ve given you an album, now I’m going to do something for myself.’ I wanted a ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’ There are four key changes, five time changes, and a big, dramatic ending. It’s every YUNGBLUD song squeezed into one. And it literally goes from a minor verse to a major chorus, it goes minor in the middle, then back to major, then back to minor again. Towards the end of the song, there is a line that says, ‘Times will change and you might break.’ I recorded it with no music—just to a click track. And I said, ‘Build on top of that. If the music tops my passion, I’ll record it again. But I dare you to try and top the passion of that vocal take.’ This song is a message to my fanbase. Times will change and you might break, but I will spend the rest of my life believing in you.
–YUNGBLUD via Apple Music
- 1.teresa
- 4.mars
- 6.love song
- 9.weird!
- 10.charity
- 12.the freak show
- 13.braindead!
- 14.parents
- 15.original me
- 16.casual sabotage
