“Carnival of Rust” is the first single and the title track of the Carnival of Rust album by the Finnish rock band Poets of the Fall. It was released in Finland on 22 March 2006 and in Germany on 1 December 2006. The track was recorded on 15 July 2005 at Rockperry Festival in Vaasa, Finland.
The song has gained a significant amount of success by immediately hitting the number one on YleX’s Most Wanted and staying on top of the list for four months (for now). The song reached rank 2 in the official Finnish single charts as well as the most wanted song of 2006 on YleX and was #2 in overall sales/radio/video/disco play list according to the Finnish music book Sisältää Hitin and #1 in the radio play list on Rumba’s 50 Hits list.
Carnival of Rust – Lyrics
To breathe the name
Of your saviour
In your hour of need
And taste the blame,
If the flavour should remind you of greed
Of implication, insinuation and you will
Till you cannot lie still
In all this turmoil
Before red cave and foil
Come closing in for a kill
Come feed the rain
‘Cos I’m thirsty for your love,
Dancing underneath the skies of lust
Yeah feed the rain
‘Cos without your love
My life ain’t nothing but this carnival of rust
It’s all a game
Avoiding failure
When true colours will bleed
All in the name of misbehaviour
And the things we don’t need
I lost for after no disaster can touch,
Touch us anymore
And more than ever
I hope to never fall,
Where enough is not the same it was before
Come feed the rain
‘Cos I’m thirsty for your love,
Dancing underneath the skies of lust
Yeah feed the rain
‘Cos without your love
My life ain’t nothing but this carnival of rust
Yeah feed the rain
‘Cos I’m thirsty for your love,
Dancing underneath the skies of lust
Yeah feed the rain
‘Cos without your love
My life ain’t nothing but this carnival of rust
Don’t walk away, don’t walk away,
Ooh when the world is burning
Don’t walk away, don’t walk away,
Ooh when the heart is yearning
Don’t walk away, don’t walk away,
Ooh when the world is burning
Don’t walk away, don’t walk away,
Ooh when the heart is yearning
