Merry-Go-Round is a song by Mötley Crüe. It is featured on the 1981 debut album Too Fast for Love. Both music and lyrics written by Nikki Sixx It was written about a mentally insane person who he saw on a merry-go-round going around and around. He was dragged off the merry-go-round into a mental institution. He says that he thought, "Well, what will his family think when they can't find him and don't know where he's gone."