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Masquerade - Act 1 - Masquerade
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In which a mask is applied not only shielding the ugliness.
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The loneliness weaving wonders
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Left me alone as daydawn came.
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The birdcry's timbre seemed like thunder
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- to spit on me - it was the lark.
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And on these daybreaks of my life
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Kept closed my eyes for seconds more.
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When dreams freeflow the bending mind
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Of all the grief and fear be gone.
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And on these daybreaks of my life
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Kept closed my eyes for seconds more.
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When dreams freeflow the bending mind
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Of all the grief and fear be gone.
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And on these daybreaks of your life
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Just close your eyes and live within
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Oh let them flow and bend your mind
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Try to believe the fear is gone.
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Start piercing me you wicked ghosts!
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Your voices sneak from red-rubbed lips!
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Those tangling whispers - want to soothe me,
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But start what I've never dared to speak of.
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As slowly as I dropped the cape
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- the slumber sweet as velvet fell -
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I saw the smiling face of a day
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that blew away my ease at once.
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Not love not happiness I dreamed of
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No hope for this so rotten live?
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How can I tame? How can I hide
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This twisted me I cannot fight?
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Not love not happiness I dreamed
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No hope for this so rotten live?
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How can I tame? How can I hide
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This twised me I cannot fight?
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Not love not happieness you dreamed of
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Lose hope for your so rotten live.
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You cannot tame, just try to hide
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It's you - It's me - you try to hide!
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Start piercing me you wicked ghosts!
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Your voices sneak from red-rubbed lips!
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Those tangling whispers - want to sooth me,
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But start what I've never dared to speak of.
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"Goodbye to Eric" I heard my screams
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And hoped that echos would reload in me
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And strengthen me for this inhumanizing task
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I got up and applied a mask of velvet black
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- square as the one it hosts.
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"Goodbye to Eric the human-faced -
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Shall he be known through the mask he wears."
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"Shall fear be forever repelled by the ways,
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We'll walk; and we'll melt into the face,
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Of all bodies and ever for all I'll become:
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be gone now Eric - be gone - be gone."
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Masquerade - Act 1
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Dreams of Sanity |