Now and Again - Poverty's No Crime

Would you like to be the one

Would you like to be renowned?

A silent rage can pave the way

Can keep the coldness in your eyes

Weak and chased into the light

And just a heartless smile away

They all believe in what I seem to be

So I must keep this face alive

This is a world of anger and hate

We dream of heaven but we live in hell

Now and again — now the feeling is over again — with a lie

You can always pretend it’s alright and fine

Could you help me to fight when danger is high?

When my honesty fades away

Who’s afraid to be alive again?

What in me — what is deep in my mind?

What if the danger makes me feel I could die?

Still in my head what makes be this way

And what can ease the blame inside

Too much hate too many oppositions

But the order was to win somehow

I believe there is a place to be

People get along without a trace of baseness

This is a world of anger and hate

We put our faith in hell’s array

We dream of heaven but we live in hell

Now the feeling is over again — though I try

Could you help me to find my way out of the ice

That has frozen the dream of a warm summer night

Can I offer myself to you?

I believe that I can learn to feel

What is in me — what’s behind my eyes?

Is it a dream within a lost paradise?

If I could feel — if I could feel ashamed

I lose my faith within a thousand lies

All my life could be the final lie…