Fassade - 1. Satz [English translation]

Don't stare at me!

I'm not an animal!

Just a child of man - a strange thing to you - perhaps

With eyes and ears

Heart and emotions

And yet a mind that's clear and free!

Perhaps I'm just a shade

Casting darkness on your plans

Perhaps I am a storm

Whose quiet rain slakes the thirst of many a seed for

growth

Make - Humans - like machines - and see -

they march - mindlessly - in step and - all think -

they're different and sperate - free and - in charge of

their lives

Don't stare at me!

Look deep into yourselves

It's not the others that are guilty - and poisoning this

word

No - each and every one of us struggles and fights and

shapes this life

And whenever you speak

Whose spirit is speaking through your words?

Have you ever stood at the abyss between heart and mind?

Can you say - I'm learning who I am?

Your terrible simplicity

Believing everything you told

Naturalness and autonomy

But please only within the confines of the social system

Why facade?

Isn't there enough egoism in the world?

Enough self obsession covering self-hate?

Isn't it enough that everyone is out for himself?

And no-one understands that the walls of solitude are the

walls of egoism?

• Artist:Lacrimosa
• Album:Fassade (2001)