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Sometimes you can't feel
the joy you had before
because suffering steal
it and shut the door

It's not true
who I am through your eyes
and you have no clue
how many times she dies

Dying is not a one last case
It's called life sometimes
sometimes you're in a horrible place
and your spirit experience crimes

you won't ever see the truth
and I guess it's the best for me and you
It's like loosing a tooth
it hurts but you're going through

I need to let go and move on
but everything feels so big
and I'm so down
and I'm so, so far away

I want to live through my eyes
but It's so hard

Walking a road of cobblestone,
carefully mind your step.
Matching ends from skin to bone:
caught in a spider's web.
Have you got the slightest notion
of what makes people tick?
Don't trust in anyone's emotion;
the wall grows higher brick by brick.

Where ambition is there is no space
for reason, love or joy.
Like cobblestone, like brick your face
will harden, man or boy.
Could an earthquake smash to pieces
all that culture brought about -
might the earth devour our species?
No more mankind? Crying out loud!

Oh April's Fools, you brainy apes!
What have you been doing so far?
Too high, you thought, God grew the grapes?
Our sun's just the nearest star.
Have you ever thought of thinking?
Have you finally filled your purse?
Maybe there are worthy beings
somewhere in the universe...


Heinrich Baumgarten, May 1984