“Cliffhanger” was a song that was cut from the finale of Season 2 of the Netflix Series: The Carnivorous Carnival: Part Two.
It was written as a potential end to the second season, but was cut before music was composed, because the creators thought it would deflate the tension, and pausing the action for a song made the danger seem less dangerous.[1]
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- Lemony Snicket:
- Sometimes a story is over
- But it only seems just halfway through
- There’s unfinished business
- Hair-raising suspense
- And lingering mystery too
- You might feel upset with an ending like that
- If it’s really an ending at all
- You might feel as though
- You’re on top of a cliff
- And nobody knows if you’ll fall
- LS/Violet/Klaus:
- It’s a cliffhanger, a cliffhanger
- A story that cuts off midway
- The world is like this, it’s a cliffhanger
- Day after uncertain day
- Violet Baudelaire:
- You might think you’re a hero
- So it follows the hero will win
- But now you’re tumbling
- Goodness knows where
- It’s a nerve-wracking state that you’re in
- Count Olaf:
- Or you might think you’re a villain
- With a scheme that you hope will prevail
- But with this and with that
- You don’t know where you’re at
- Except midway through some anxious tale
- Olaf/Esmé Squalor/Troupe:
- It’s a cliffhanger, a cliffhanger
- And it cuts off before it’s polite
- The world is like this, it’s a cliffhanger
- Night after uncertain night
- Hook-Handed Man:
- Maybe the villain has henchmen
- White-Faced Women:
- Henchwomen
- Henchperson of Indeterminate Gender:
- Or Hench-I-don’t-know
- All the Henchfolk:
- And they don’t know where next they will go
- Esmé:
- Maybe somewhere there’s a beautiful dame
- Who’s riding beside some smart guy
- She’s had quite an exciting time on the road
- But now she might leave him high and dry
- All the Villains:
- It’s a cliffhanger, a cliffhanger
- It stops just when the end is near
- The world is like this, it’s a cliffhanger
- Year after uncertain year
- Mr. Poe:
- Maybe you work for a powerful bank
- Mrs. Poe:
- Or a newspaper everyone reads
- The Poes:
- Maybe you try
- To do everything right
- But surely we know where that leads
- Jacquelyn Scieszka:
- Maybe you’re part of a secret
- Larry Your-Waiter:
- A secret that holds you in thrall
- LS:
- But the truth is a secret that everyone shares
- Larry/Jacquelyn/LS:
- The world knows nothing at all
- Entire cast:
- It’s a cliffhanger, a cliffhanger
- We’re all on the edge of a knife
- The world is like this, a cliffhanger
- Life after uncertain life
- It’s a cliffhanger, a cliffhanger
- When it’s night, when it’s noon, when it’s dawn
- We’re all in suspense which is why we look tense
- It goes on and on and on (it’s a cliffhanger)
- On and on and on (it’s a cliffhanger)
- On and on and on and on and-