( DREAMS OF SANITY )

In which a mask is applied not only shielding the ugliness

The loneliness weaving wonders

Left me alone as daydawn came.

The birdcry's timbre seemed like thunder

to spit on me - it was the lark.

And on these daybreaks of my life

( And on these daybreaks of my life )

Kept closed my eyes for seconds more

( Kept closed my eyes for seconds more )

When dreams freeflow the bending mind

( When dreams freeflow the bending mind )

Of all the grief and fear be gone

( Of all the grief and fear be gone )

Start piercing me you wicked ghosts!

Your voices sneak from red-rubbed lips!

Those tangling whispers - want to soothe me,

But start what I've never dared to speak of.

As slowly as I dropped the cape

the slumber sweet as velvet fell

I saw the smiling face of a day

that blew away my ease at once.

Not love not happiness I dreamed of

No hope for this so rotten live?

How can I tame? How can I hide

This twisted me I cannot fight?

Not love not happiness I dreamed

( Not love not happieness you dreamed of )

No hope for this so rotten live?

( Lose hope for your so rotten live )

How can I tame? How can I hide

( You cannot tame, just try to hide )

This twised me I cannot fight?

( It's you - It's me - you try to hide! )

Start piercing me you wicked ghosts!

Your voices sneak from red-rubbed lips!

Those tangling whispers - want to sooth me,

But start what I've never dared to speak of.

"Goodbye to Eric" I heard my screams

And hoped that echos would reload in me

And strengthen me for this inhumanizing task

I got up and applied a mask of velvet black

square as the one it hosts.

"Goodbye to Eric the human-faced -

Shall he be known through the mask he wears."

"Shall fear be forever repelled by the ways,

We'll walk; and we'll melt into the face,

Of all bodies and ever for all I'll become:

be gone now Eric, be gone, be gone."