From the first breath in this world The flame of life is slowly extinguishing
Trying to escape from that essential fear That prisoner of limits and words Disguise all things Unaware of the inevitable fate The veil that conceals the final enigma Falls as soon as life can be seen As a prolonged agony ♪ What would happen If our face could faithfully Express our inner suffering? If all the internal torment Could manifest itself in our expression Would we still be able to talk? ♪ Could we exchange words Without hiding our faces with our hands? To live would not be possible If the truth of our feelings Could be read on our faces But words disguise all things Regardless of our will to communicate We are unable to express something ♪ And even from the most sincere attempt You can only expect nothing but a lie No one would dare to look in a mirror Since all of our most intimate fears Are somberly bonded to the horror of the real