Infants like phantoms
Denied and suspected
Their existence discovered
Always when least expected
Prepared for the day
The knight, he just cannot keep
The perfect mask in its place
When he is falling asleep
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Faces slacken in slumber
Each rigid muscle relaxes
Without warning the hidden child comes to the surface
From the deepest darkness
Some unnameable place
Of the tower inverted
Forms a different face
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Climbing upwards with effort
To see through the eyes
Windows to the soul notion they are starring inside
And while the outside beholder sees the face of a child
This fearful and helpless infant
Turns to a wild beast inside
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Becomes the architect of the most terrible dreams
And puts a cruel fears of death into our hero's sleep
This child is a dragon who you must strive to kill
Though it defeated you once and, yes, it always will!
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Oh, little velveteen knight, and heroes of all kinds
Endeavour to slay the dragon
And yourselves when you try
Yes, this monster's immortal and your fight is in vain
It only will last forever
Some monsters just cannot be slain
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This infant's beast
And the dragon's its guardian
Protecting his child
So that no-one can harm it
Their most gruesome shape
Puts the fear of death into our supposed (but velveteen) hero
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Yet, you must get me right
There is no choice for the child
(There is no choice for the child, no choice)
Its intentions are good
(Its intentions are good)
And always upright
Tell me (tell me), why do you from? (Why do you from?)
Do you bear questions... or doubt?
Have you not recognised?
(Have you not recognized?)
That both, dragon and child
Are in fact more than kin
(Are in fact more than kin)
They represent the same thing!
And all our characters that you will see or seem
Are merely part of the dreamer
And therefore the dream