The horrific phenomena To become the spectator Of what a man can become Under the diseased spell of confusion
From a Father to his Son The thinnest fragment of recognition From hazy memories to none Only a man who can recall Nothing but love
"I can see, but my eyes they see next to naught And I can think, but my mind has regressed to blank When I open my eyes to this world that is not mine With my mind caught in another time frame I can feel the presence of those I know I've loved But I know not the names of one of them"
I'm not too young to be dead Yet far too young to be alive and not comprehend Or recognize a stranger as my friend but fail to know the faces of my own kin
A fire burns out in the pouring rain As wet piles of ash turn the darkest gray Await sunny days in which doom impends And still pretend that a fire's still burning in that pouring rain And ash will return to its former flame To yield sunny days and hear those catch phrases we don't understand
Over these years of constant decline I hold regrets Of the past that I can't change and won't return
I'm not too young to be dead Yet far too young to be alive and not comprehend
A fire burns out in the pouring rain As wet piles of ash turn the darkest gray Await sunny days in which doom impends And still pretend that a fire's still burning in that pouring rain And ash will return to its former flame To yield sunny days and hear those catch phrases we don't understand
But now instead we slowly watch as you fade away Peacefully fade into the gray
As we've seen through this fire and rain Is the gray haze that seems to have taken your brain All you see through disease ridden haze Is this pain of the people who spent every day Sending prayers to a dying flame As it fades and leads to a West Berlin grave
For many years this fire and rain will remain And I'll have to carry the pain That in a maize and blue casket encased Lies the memory of the greatest man And victim of undeserved fateTeksty umieszczone na naszej stronie są własnością wytwórni, wykonawców, osób mających do nich prawa.