The Wages of Sin / Danse De La Beauté

Time loves a hero
Everybody hopes it's a mirror image
Did you get the news from across the river?
Someone say a prayer for the prince of fools
What's it gonna mean in the final hour?
What's it gonna be when the bell-ringer's tower comes tumblin' down?

Never a moment of kindness
Only the laughter, only the anger
Under the big top
It's a beggar's world, but it's real
The holy sidewalks are now the highways
And home to the sinners and thieves
Beware the eyes of the beholder
Watch out, watch out
Look over your shoulder

Livin' like a storybook gypsy princess
Lookin' like an angel in rags
Let 'em even try to resist, it can't be done
Someone put the chains on the dancer
Lock her away, break her spirit
Pay her with shame and salvation, the wages of sin

Woe to the unholy masses
Watch out, you children of Egypt
Inside the palace, it's the dealer's game
You gotta play
There is no justice
Only a hangman who patiently waits

Beware the eyes of the beholder
Watch out, watch out
Look over your shoulder

Beauty and the Beast again forever
Truly the age of the mask
Hiding and dying for love, but too frightened to ask
Steal her away, be a hero
Save her from a fate sure as death
Chances are it's only the light of the moment that lasts

Never a moment of kindness
Only the laughter, only the anger
Under the big top
It's a beggar's world, but it's real
The holy sidewalks are now the highways
And home to the sinners and thieves
Beware the eyes of the beholder

Time loves a hero
Everybody hopes it's a mirror image
Did you get the news from across the river?
Someone say a prayer for the prince of fools
What's it gonna mean in the final hour?
What's it gonna be when the bell-ringer's tower comes tumblin' down?

Just drop the curtain
All that you need is a personal ending
It's only fiction
But it's an age-old, well-known, sold-out show
Just take your chances
Lay down your hopes on the vanishing line
And roll the bones

Watch out
Look over your shoulder
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Watch out, watch out
Look over your shoulder