Arabesque Lyrics


I remember well when your dark eyes

were emerging from the gloom of our staircase

and my frozen lips from the morning cold

were resting on your warm lips.

I remember well when your blue eyes

were laughing at the surprise

blooming from my hands,

and your words and hugs were consoling me

from the sullen weariness of my thoughts.

But the glass cracked and it drew

an arabesque of fissures above us.

Hugging above the oblivion, spirit and mind

lost their balance and fell down.

And now that I know

you’re an illusion,

I realize that maybe I didn’t love you,

but only a creation of my mind.

The shadows get longer,

reality loses its shape,

I feel a silence

that desperately cries,

while the sickness slowly advances,​

the sickness slowly advances...

It mixes with my blood, reaches my heart,

and my heart grows cold.

So cold…

Every time I walk

among the ruins of my devastated soul,

I see Love and Illusion holding hands.

And you, my fellow traveller,

do you have the courage to realize

that you love what you WANT and not what IS?

When the glass cracks and it draws

an arabesque of fissures above us,

hugging above the oblivion, spirit and mind,

like disgraced tightrope walkers,

lose their balance and fall down.

And now that you know

I’m an illusion

all your castles

crumble into dust

and drag you to the cliff’s end.

The shadows get longer,

reality loses its shape,

I feel a silence

that desperately cries

and roughly chokes my thoughts.

And now that we know

we are an illusion

all our castles

crumble into dust

and drag us to the cliff’s end.

The shadows get longer,

reality loses its shape,

I feel a silence

that desperately cries

and roughly chokes my thoughts.

Now,

once again,

I patiently put together

the pieces of glass,

and I reassemble

a glass bell of purity

above us.

I love you ‘cause I don’t know you

and your deepest thoughts

are an enigma to me.

And so they will have to stay,

so that not even once

can I tell you that I know you,

and one thousand times

that I love you.