The great white bird took them up
The missile brought them down
The iron road brings them home
The hurt is felt in every town

Because someone wants to make a point
Because someone is not prepared to obey
Because someone wants to be king
Because someone is not prepared to play

By the rules we all agreed upon
By the rules we could all survive
By the rules we abide to live
By the rules we strive to be alive

At the first blush
I felt young and smiled
At the touch of your hand
My heart went wild

In the first instance
I thought I saw it wrong
Your eyes stopped sparkling
You were no longer strong

In the first flight
Of the birds I cried
My heart stopped beating
I knew you died

At the first opportunity
I screamed, but you weren’t there
Darkness came over me
You were not here to care

For the first time
I was all alone
You took your wings
Your soul had flown

There is so much I need to do
To write some stories, at least a few
But there’s nothing in my brain
In any case not something new

I want to write about life and laughter
Of roses and feeling blue
The sense of living and memories
Or the passion I shared with you

But on this day there’s naught to share
I don’t know where my inspiration went
Maybe in the vast empty depth of my mind
Just at the end of the endless end

I heard you discuss ideals without a sincere belief
And wondered if you spoke the words from inner conviction
Or were you just repeating other men’s words like a thief
Because your own knowledge would have been a contradiction

Of the well-cultivated life you’ve led for many years
And finally you had the bravery to think again
Find the well-meant passion through all the forgotten tears
In changing the position of the deprived in disdain

I watched when you performed your outward sham appearances
I could not imagine why anyone would hear your word
And not understand the great dividing differences
Was it the sound of your voice or the echo that I heard

I woke up this morning and there was nothing to see
Although I saw a squirrel in a gigantic tree
And a vague path in the impenetrable woodland
My senses went numb and I just couldn’t understand

I woke up this morning and there was nowhere to go
I enjoyed the pre-dawn with its sweltering aglow
And contemplated what this despairing day would bring
In the certainty that I was losing everything

I woke up this morning and there was naught to recall
The pitch-black night took my yearning heart once and for all
With an obvious striking and doleful solitariness
The one thing I saw was the color of emptiness

The clock is ticking seconds, minutes, hours
The hands are waving that the time is ours
The timekeeper gives just enough space
For us to participate in the chase

We all contribute to the foolishness
The brutality and the ruthlessness
To the ever-increasing reckless speed
Of the compulsory urge to succeed

The time has nigh come for us to let go
We must let the ghastly madness outgrow
And go back to the place where time stood still
In which people lived by their own free will

The chronograph pulsates in pent-up drift
It almost reaches the end of the shift
And when the clock plays its deciding chimes
We realize this is the end of times

When you enjoy the evening sun under the willows
When you lay your head down on the pillows
When every second of your final day is clicking
When times passes by the clock of life is ticking

Remember that you stopped loving me
Remember that you would fervently disagree
Remember that you where ever feeling right
Remember that you are alone this night

When you remember that precise point in time
When you knew you were past your prime
When you felt sorrow and discontent
When you knew none of this was meant

Remember that I once loved you dear
Remember that I conquered your fear
Remember that I would always be with you
Remember that I was the butterfly that flew

Almost choking in my sorrow
Down my face flows a bitter tear
In tense waiting for tomorrow
When I can let go of the fear

In the daytime I am living
On the edge of distress and hope
But the night is not forgiving
I’m terrified in blinding grope

I know I’d be out of control
Because before the black night clears
I will search for my failing soul
In the bottle with all my tears

Looking at the last stars above
The sun rises and clears the sky
There’s just a little hope for love
Yet this is not my time to die

The memory of our kiss still flaring bright
You burned that kiss into my soul
You set my entire life alight
You make me misplace all control

I submit myself to my silent screams
Can I ask for a chance to love
Or will you steal my hopeless dreams
And are you staying there above

Was it all a fantasy which will end
The moment I open my eyes
Did I imagine and pretend
And did I just hear my own cries

There is just one more thing I need to do
Before I post my wishing list
And that is counting all the stars
In the dusk world where you exist

In the dark where all hopes are turned
In which the gleam of happiness is never seen
There’s a sliver of light where my heart was burned
Where my dreams and nightmares lie in between

I really thought we’d stay together in years
Destined for each other we would always belong
You’d never break your promise, leave me in tears
Like the love dance of the swans we would be strong

But you crumbled my dreams of happily ever after
And somewhere down the line all fell apart
You started to stray and vanished hereafter
You gave me false hope and broke my heart

So, I may have lost too many hopes in too many years
But with all my might I will fight untill the bitter end
Even when the last words are merely sighs in fears
Because tomorrow is when broken hopes may mend