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Round and round like a horse on a carousel, we go
Will I catch up to love? I can never tell, I know
Chasing after you is like a fairytale, but I
Feel like I'm glued on tight to this carousel

Come, come one, come all
You must be this tall
To ride this ride at the carnival

Oh, come, take my hand
And run though playland
So high, too high at the carnival

And it's all fun and games
'Til somebody falls in love
But you already bought a ticket
And there's no turning back now

Round and round like a horse on a carousel, we go
Will I catch up to love? I can never tell, I know
Chasing after you is like a fairytale, but I
Feel like I'm glued on tight to this carousel

This horse is too slow
We're always this close
Almost, almost, we're a freakshow

Right, right when I'm near
It's like you disappear
Where'd you go? Mister Houdini, you're a freakshow

And it's all fun and games
'Til somebody falls in love
But you already bought a ticket
And there's no turning back now

Round and round like a horse on a carousel, we go
Will I catch up to love? I can never tell, I know
Chasing after you is like a fairytale, but I
Feel like I'm glued on tight to this carousel

Why did you steal my cotton candy heart?
You threw it in this damn coin slot
And now I'm stuck, I'm stuck
Riding, riding, riding

Round and round like a horse on a carousel, we go
Will I catch up to love? I can never tell, I know
Chasing after you is like a fairytale, but I
Feel like I'm glued on tight to this carousel

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Melanie Martinez - Carousel (Official Music Video)

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Melanie Martinez - Carousel (Official Music Video)

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“Feels like i'm glued on tight on tight to this carousel”
#Hyperbole

Description: someone glued to a carousel.

Meaning: She’s not actually glued on the carousel but she is not willing to get of the carousel as she is addicted to the feelings of love.

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“Round and round like a horse on a carousel”
#simile

Description: Carousel horse going rounds

Meaning: It means she feels like she stuck in a loop not being able to get her crush. In the way she trying to catch up to her crush. Like on a carousel, the horses on it are stuck in their positions. That represents her love for her crush that she will never be able to catch up to him

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“Will I catch up to love?”
#personification

Description: She’s chasing love like a person

Meaning: She’s chasing love as if love is an actual person, she doesn’t know whether if she is able to find actual love.

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“Chasing after you is like a fairytale”
#Simile

Description: She is  chasing her crush like how a girl in a fairytale is always chasing her crush.

Meaning: In fairytales, the story’s don’t always use logic. Neither wolves nor pigs can talk in real life and her chasing the one she loves is not logical because he does not like her back. It is also correlating to the fact that fairytales usually have a long journey for them to fall in love however she does not know that he doesn’t like her.

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“Why did you steal my cotton candy heart?”
#Metaphor

Description: Her heart is made from cotton candy

Meaning: Her heart is very soft. When cotton candy touches water it dissolves, representing how she fell for him and her love for him “dissolves” her heart.

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“Almost, almost, we’re a freakshow”
#Metaphor

Description: She is the literal freak show

Meaning: She is a joke to others as she keeps chasing the one she loves even though he does not love her back. Him not loving her back is obvious as everyone can tell and thinks she is a joke for not knowing and still chasing after his love.

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“It’s like you disappear”
#Hyperbole

Description: The person disappearing

Meaning: The “you” refers to the one she loves and that he starts distance himself from her life and stops talking to her.

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“And its all fun and games ‘Til Somebody falls in love”
#Hyperbole

Description: somebody falling in love and its not fun anymore

Meaning: She falls in love and realises that its not as fun anymore as it gets serious

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“But you already bought a ticket and there’s no turning back now”
#Metaphor

Description:After buying the ticket she is unable to get off

Meaning: She had fallen for the one she loves, but after falling in love she is unable to stop liking him even if she wants to.