Can't Be Erased Big Band

(album: JT XVI - 2018)

I'm the dancing Demon
Watch me twirl and hop and spin
I'm quick to give a smile
But I won't forget your sins

Hahahahaha! The wonders of imagination
Welcome home dear friend
How long we've all been waiting
Let's create a masterpiece, breathe life into your dreams!
All you gotta do is start up the machine

I'm the product of an artist
Whose creations bring delight
Upon this somber threshold
Imagination comes to life
Just free yourself from reason
Soon you'll see in black and white
I may be a seed of evil
But I'm conceived within your mind
Leaking from the ceiling
Ink is bleeding through the lines
Is that your heart that's beating
Or illusion you're alive?
Collect what's necessary
Keep appeasing the divines
It's me you should be believing
Cuz he's deceiving you with lies

Holy Conniption has it been thirty years?
It appears Mickey Mouse might've been murdered here
Lifeless pie-cut eyes I have learned to fear
They remind me why I quit working here
Why did I come, lemme go, I should be leaving
What happened, I don't wanna know
What are these demons?
Guess I might as well investigate
Secrets are unlocking too bad the exit ain't

Despite this mask of happiness
I drown in dark despair
The world may be your canvas
What you paint on it, beware!
The pen is mightier than the sword
It has no limitation
Don't refrain, this ink will stain
And nothing can erase us now
The face you saw perhaps you recognize
We'd never harm the hand that draws
And cursed us all with life

Shamed and defaced
Scathed and disgraced
Tainted by hatred
And can't be erased
Creators betrayed us
We've got it on tape
We've written your fate
And it can't be erased
Can't be erased

I was not always a monster
Once I was somebody's muse
Innovation made us stronger
But that power was abused
The machine is thumping
And the ink is pumping
Now you need to run
Because the demon's coming

I need help, someone send a telegram
I'm surrounded by upside-down pentagrams
I don't have a guide just candlelight
With an axe I don't know how to handle right
That little devil darlin's on a lot of reels
Long as he's on one, he cannot be real
Stop the projectors, Bendy's off his reel
Got a feeling he and Joey got a deal
An unholy bargain, a demonic seal
With a master plan, that I must reveal
Won't be long till this ink's all congealed
Upon my body, head to toe all concealed
But a little bit of bleach should do the trick
I'll never watch another damn cartoon I quit!
Look at you, you're scared of a moving pic
Hey Bendy, how'd you get that tutu to fit?

I'm blinded by this evil growing
My heart is full of people-loathing
With secrets that I keep from showing
I am the wolf in sheepish clothing
Flood the shop, with ink a-flowing
Push it to the brink of blowing
We hope you don't think of going
Weigh you down to keep from floating
Come with me, we'll bring you Joey
You'll be kept from being lonely
Kicking, screaming, sinking slowly
Give your soul, it's what you owe me

Shamed and defaced
Scathed and disgraced
Tainted by hatred
And can't be erased
Creators betrayed us
We've got it on tape
We've written your fate
And it can't be erased
Can't be erased