THE MERRY GO ROUND song lyrics
By Joel Sattler

Based on a translation of a poem by Chico Buarque

Some days you feel just like a phantom
Some days you are just a no show
Did you simply fall off the track or
Was the world that has grown?

We all want to have our own say when
We’re there at the end of the road
But here comes the Merry-Go-Round
And destiny won’t let us go

Wheel of the world, wheel of the circus
Wheels within wheels, a spinning top
The reeling of time instantaneous
The place where the heart cannot stop

We fight upstream against the current
Till we cannot see the way through
The boat has to turn back around when
There is so much more we should do

It’s time for to tend to our roses
Time to attend to our cares
But here comes the Merry-Go-Round and
We have so much more to do there

Wheel of the world, wheel of the circus
Wheels within wheels, a spinning top
The reeling of time instantaneous
The place where the heart cannot stop

The whirl of the skirt of a brown girl
Does not want to spin nosiree
The dance of the samba is over
I won’t serenade her, not me

There at the start with violas
We’re ready to sing and to play
But here comes the Merry-Go-Round
All ready to take us away

Wheel of the world, wheel of the circus
Wheels within wheels, a spinning top
The reeling of time instantaneous
The place where the heart cannot stop

The samba, the strings and the roses
The fire that someday will burn
It all was a passing illusion
The first breeze of spring did return

But still in our hearts is nostalgia
Remembering time before tears
But here comes the Merry-Go-Round and
So then it just all disappears

Wheel of the world, wheel of the circus
Wheels within wheels, a spinning top
The reeling of time instantaneous
The place where the heart cannot stop

Wheel of the world, wheel of the circus
Wheels within wheels, a spinning top
The reeling of time instantaneous
The place where the heart cannot stop

Wheel of the world, wheel of the circus
Wheels within wheels, a spinning top
The reeling of time instantaneous
The place where the heart cannot stop

Wheel of the world, wheel of the circus
Wheels within wheels, a spinning top
The reeling of time instantaneous
The place where the heart cannot stop

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