The world is far away ⁄ down here it never becomes day. ⁄ Time stands still ⁄ in this dark wet grave ⁄ in my grave…
Time is a healer, they say. ⁄ But it's not true, it never was.
What happened ⁄ down by the lake ⁄ will never be over. ⁄ It still hurts.
On the seventh card lies drowned, ⁄ hidden on the ground of the lake, ⁄ a woman drowned long ago, ⁄ her pale skin covered with seaweed ⁄ her lungs filled with water ⁄ her eyes filled with hatred ⁄ chained in the depth ⁄ in the icy cold wet…
And she sees me ⁄ and she pulls me ⁄ down, down there with her. ⁄ And she calls me ⁄ she urges me. ⁄ Her voice is close by me.
What happened ⁄ down by the lake ⁄ will never be over. ⁄ It still hurts.
The day will arrive ⁄ on which she‘ll fall silent. ⁄ Not much longer ⁄ and my time is over. ⁄ All the sins, all the crimes ⁄ that I commited. ⁄ I can't get rid of them, ⁄ they follow me into my grave.
Time is a healer, they say. ⁄ But it's not true, it never was. ⁄ Not to see that ⁄ one has to be blind, just like you.
What happened ⁄ down by the lake ⁄ will never be over. ⁄ It still hurts.
Every night in my sleep ⁄ I follow the footprints in the snow. ⁄ They lead me to her…
Is my brother with you now? ⁄ He shot himself on New Years Day. ⁄ Wasn't easy finding him in the bathroom ⁄ or better: what's left of him. ⁄ I vomitted time and again ⁄ as I said: it wasn't easy ⁄ to see him lay there like that ⁄ dead and without a face.
He never understood ⁄ why you went away. ⁄ He just couldn't get it ⁄ that it was for the best like that, only like that. ⁄ I supported him, as well as I could ⁄ during those hard weeks. ⁄ I sat next to him, held his hand ⁄ and talked about you.
He had critters in the kitchen ⁄ vomit in the closet. ⁄ The sorrow had weakened him ⁄ he hardly got out of bed. ⁄ He stared at the ceiling endlessly ⁄ he had a hard time taking breath. ⁄ He said, "Forgive me, brother ⁄ but I can't take any more…"!
My doctor was addicted to his bottle. ⁄ In that case it may happen you slip. ⁄ He had this steep staircase ⁄ in his old house. ⁄ Pictures hung on the walls there ⁄ made of cold shiny color ⁄ like the stuff on my hands ⁄ that I could hardly get of.
What do you think? ⁄ Do I have a right ⁄ that something like that amuses me? ⁄ Or am I bad from the roots? ⁄ Did I hopelesly fail ⁄ as a human?
Why don't you answer me? ⁄ Please don't make it that hard. ⁄ Since my brother is dead ⁄ you don't talk anymore. ⁄ I sway across the ice ⁄ and search for your face. ⁄ I fall to my knees and call out for you ⁄ as I feel it breaking. ⁄ Without your voice ⁄ my life is so much darker. ⁄ I don't refuse, ⁄ the game is over. ⁄ I follow you into the water.
Don't let me be alone ⁄ Don't leave me behind lonely…
Soaked trunks ⁄ that rock softly as if sleeping. ⁄ Skinny half rotten branches ⁄ that bend under heavy weight. ⁄ I hear a sighed wailing, ⁄ croaky complaint ⁄ like a foreign language ⁄ but I understand what they are saying. ⁄ "Here, you are at home ⁄ now you pay the price!" ⁄ There is no awakening
Under the ice ⁄ where the shadows lurk, ⁄ under the ice ⁄ where time flows, ⁄ under the ice ⁄ in the black water, ⁄ under the ice ⁄ where hatred freezes over.
I am not alone on the bottom of the sea. ⁄ Resin congeals like black blood ⁄ into faces on the trunks ⁄ distorted with fear and rage.
It is a forest that breathes and talks, ⁄ that stretches out its branches like arms ⁄ towards shady light. ⁄ By God I curse this deceptive light! ⁄ On the black bark it paints its face, ⁄ my brother's face. ⁄ I see it and know ⁄ he is there with me
Under the ice ⁄ where the shadows lurk, ⁄ under the ice ⁄ where time flows, ⁄ under the ice ⁄ in the black water, ⁄ under the ice ⁄ where my hatred freezes.
Do you scream? ⁄ Do you rage? ⁄ Do you cry ⁄ tears of ice? ⁄ Do you feel, ⁄ feel the cold? ⁄ Here, ⁄ under the ice?
I can't stand to see ⁄ my brother like that. ⁄ I can't close my eyes, ⁄ can't turn away my head. ⁄ I see his suffering ⁄ the price is that high. ⁄ Forever captured, ⁄ forever down here
Under the ice ⁄ where the shadows lurk, ⁄ under the ice ⁄ where time flows, ⁄ under the ice ⁄ I hear them calling ⁄ under the ice ⁄ where the sinners atone.
But the picture fades, ⁄ water fills my lungs. ⁄ The dream freezes. ⁄ I am all alone ⁄ under the ice.
I want to live ⁄ do you heal my suffering heart?
Please hang in there ⁄ I will get you out ⁄ believe me, it's no game. ⁄ I am obsessed by you. ⁄ I have long forgotten ⁄ who I used to be, before I fell for you.
I want to live ⁄ do you heal my suffering heart? ⁄ I dreamed of you ⁄ you lay beside me. ⁄ Not for just one hour, all through the night. ⁄ Both of us stand ⁄ on the cutting edge. ⁄ I said: "Come with me" ⁄ but all you did was laugh.
I want to live ⁄ do you heal my suffering heart? ⁄ I want to live ⁄ do you know my sorrow?
Can you feel it, Veronica? ⁄ Not much longer and I'll be very close to you. ⁄ No matter what you ask for ⁄ I'll do everything you want ⁄ If you only come with me, ⁄ if you only satisfy my hunger.
You enter the room. ⁄ You don't see me. ⁄ I am your shadow ⁄ I avoid the light. ⁄ Somebody pulls you ⁄ onto his lap. ⁄ You say: you hurt me ⁄ but he won't let loose.
He's going to suffer, Veronica ⁄ the day of wrath has finally come. ⁄ Your look falls on me ⁄ your pupils enlarge. ⁄ Get up now ⁄ hurry up and go…
The stroboscope ⁄ shoots its light ⁄ right into ⁄ his sneering face. ⁄ I warn you! ⁄ My voice is shaken by anger. ⁄ Don't provoke me! ⁄ Blood knocks in my temples.
But he only laughs at me, ⁄ says: get the idiot out of here! ⁄ I leap forward, now he sees it too ⁄ the blade rushes into his stomach.
Go to hell! ⁄ Don't look at it, Veronica. ⁄ Go to hell! ⁄ Don't look at it, don't come too close.
You press against the wall. ⁄ Open your eyes. ⁄ Come on, take my hand. ⁄ It's over ⁄ No one will laugh anymore. ⁄ What's wrong with you? ⁄ Wipe off the tears. ⁄ You flinch away from me. ⁄ All this ⁄ I did it all for you!
You spread your legs ⁄ for dirt like me every night. ⁄ All of a sudden you feel too delicate for that. ⁄ You were anyone's for money ⁄ now you play lady of the world. ⁄ The transformation couldn't have been more perfect. ⁄ You are cold, ⁄ cold as a reptile.
You and I ⁄ are forever bound ⁄ but your betrayal ⁄ burns like salt in my wounds.
I underestimated you. ⁄ Nobody has hurt me like you, ⁄ for that you will pay. ⁄ For the last time: I warn you! ⁄ Don't come between him and me! ⁄ You don't leave me a choice. ⁄ It's you or me, ⁄ that's the name of our little game.
Your body didn't belong to you. ⁄ You were crushed to the floor. ⁄ You stood with one leg in your grave. ⁄ You wanted out of there ⁄ now you are free, what else do you want? ⁄ Did you forget how I suffered for you? ⁄ You are cold, ⁄ cold as a reptile.
Turn off the lights ⁄ then I can see her. ⁄ Don't move ⁄ let me come over you. ⁄ Don't touch me ⁄ with your cold hand. ⁄ Don't say a word ⁄ turn your head against the wall.
Come to me ⁄ we'll stay here ⁄ at Hotel Eden. ⁄ Your face shows ⁄ the night was long ⁄ at Hotel Eden.
Wipe yourself off ⁄ sort your hair. ⁄ Dress with that ⁄ go back to the bar. ⁄ Don't go ⁄ near the light. ⁄ It shows the traces ⁄ on your face.
Get more rum ⁄ bring more wine. ⁄ A man like me ⁄ should never be sober. ⁄ I swallowed pills ⁄ sedated myself ⁄ but the effect fades ⁄ and my smile freezes.
Come to me ⁄ we'll stay here ⁄ at Hotel Eden. ⁄ Your face shows ⁄ the night was long ⁄ at Hotel Eden.
The storm in my head, ⁄ the cold neon light. ⁄ You look similar to her ⁄ but you are not…
I loved you ⁄ I trusted you. ⁄ You used me ⁄ I understand your game now.
You want at the top ⁄ you don't look back. ⁄ Do I stand in between you ⁄ and your new happiness?
I wanted to lay you down on roses. ⁄ I untied your chains. ⁄ Now you are free and I am alone. ⁄ You shall be cursed!
I loved you ⁄ I trusted you. ⁄ you used me ⁄ I understand your game now.
You are perfect ⁄ when you're telling lies, ⁄ when you betray. ⁄ Ice cold, like an innocent lamb.
I wanted to lay you down on roses. ⁄ I untied your chains. ⁄ Now you are free and I am alone. ⁄ You live a peaceful life.
All you need, he can give you. ⁄ You fall asleep in his arms ⁄ You shall be cursed!
You don't deceive me. ⁄ You don't deceive me anymore. ⁄ Be cursed!
I loved you ⁄ I trusted you. ⁄ You used me ⁄ I understand your game now.
VERONICA Say whatever you want ⁄ I don't follow you anymore. ⁄ Maybe I used to fear you ⁄ but that was long ago. ⁄ Even though it may have seemed different to you, ⁄ there never was a sparkle of hope...not even a little one. ⁄ You paid, you cried. ⁄ You were drunk as hell every night.
Why do you want to talk to him? ⁄ Don't hurt him! ⁄ If you really love him that much, ⁄ go away!
Something destroys our world. ⁄ The house of lies falls collapsing. ⁄ Everything that seemed certain falls apart. ⁄ Let sleeping dogs lie.
You are in the way. ⁄ You are only a ball and chain. ⁄ Let me go! Can't you see ⁄ there will never be anything between us?! ⁄ What do you want to tell your brother? ⁄ What in the world? ⁄ That you were one of many, ⁄ that I was anyone's for money?
Why do you want to talk to him? ⁄ Don't hurt him! ⁄ If you really love him that much, ⁄ go away!
Something destroys our world. ⁄ The house of lies falls collapsing. ⁄ Everything that seemed certain falls apart. ⁄ Let sleeping dogs lie.
What would my brother say ⁄ if he knew you were with me? ⁄ If he knew you live in sin ⁄ like a godless animal? ⁄ I know, it is this dying world ⁄ in which nothing stays together anymore. ⁄ But we're still joined ⁄ by an eternal bond. ⁄ Do you remember your last glimpse ⁄ of reason?
Didn't you say yourself ⁄ I was a ball and chain? ⁄ You see, one must ⁄ be careful with words. ⁄ I took yours to my heart ⁄ and that's why we're out here. ⁄ Let's go, come on, faster ⁄ I'll show you the way. ⁄ Further, further, further ⁄ up to the bridge.
Look at this spot ⁄ the lake here is deep. ⁄ It often seems to me ⁄ that something calls to me from there. ⁄ Quiet voices, ⁄ and they told me of you ⁄ and your sins ⁄ that's why we're here. ⁄ can't you hear ⁄ what they want to tell us? ⁄ They sing a song. ⁄ Something about women long forgotten, ⁄ drowned in a dark world. ⁄ I hope you like that song. ⁄ I want you to be happy ⁄ not sad like me. ⁄ Look here, little one ⁄ I've got something for you!
Not just an ordinary stone ⁄ no, real marble for your leg. ⁄ The best for you is good enough for me. ⁄ Don't you think that's a fine trait? ⁄ Don't be a spoilsport, ⁄ don't act like that! ⁄ Stop resisting! ⁄ We still must put the ring on. ⁄ I get the feeling you wanted to say one last thing ⁄ unfortunately I've forgotten to ask. ⁄ Now there's only bubbles coming out of your mouth. ⁄ It pulls you under, faster towards the bottom. ⁄ Further, further, further ⁄ down you go. ⁄ Deeper, deeper, deeper ⁄ into your cold grave.
Don't you see ⁄ what stands before you? ⁄ It's a dream ⁄ that never ends…
