Dead Can Dance



Thought that you knew it all
Well you've seen it ten times before
Thought that you were the one
In darkness my heart was won

I love slow, slow. slow but deep
Feigned affections wash over me

Dream on my dear
And renounce temporal obligations
Dream on my dear
It's a sleep from which you may not awaken

You build me up then you knock me down
You play the fool while I play the clown
We keep time to the beat of an old slave drum

You raise my hopes then you raise the odds
You tell me that I dream too much
Now I'm serving time in disillusionment

I don't believe you anymore
I don't believe you

I thought that you had it down
With both your feet on the ground
I thought that you were the one
In darkness my heart was won

I love slow, slow but deep
Feigned affections wash over me

You build me up then you knock me down
You play the fool while I play the clown
We keep time to the beat of an old slave drum

You raise my hopes then you raise the odds
You tell me that I dream too much
Now I'm doing time in a domestic graveyard

I don't believe you anymore
I don't believe you

Never let it be said I was untrue
I never found a home inside of you
Never let it be said I was untrue
I gave you all my time
I gave you all my time
 


In times of great vexation,
when one must choose between what's right and wrong,
Freedom, so they say,
amounts to the choices you have made.

Through all the arbitrary
rationale concerning liberty,
Freedom, I must say,
exists (only) within unconditioned minds.

Reason has come of age.

How can you be satisfied with things the way they are,
when all that surrounds us now, and so much more,
remains inside the keeper's dark embrace?

The insatiable thirst for power has made
idols out of mortals, gods into clay,
soldiers into heros, children into slaves -
all damned desires, their hopes betrayed.

Who will suffer the laws
that the State can decide
your child's education,
unless you pay the price?

Who will suffer their laws?
Who will suffer their minds?
Who will suffer their words?
Who will suffer their designs?
 
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