The killer lives inside me.
Yes, I can feel him move.
Sometimes he's lightly sleeping
in the quiet of his room,
but then his eyes
will rise and stare through mine,
he'll speak my words and slice my mind
inside.
Yes, the killer lives.
Angels live inside me,
I can feel them smile.
Their presence strokes and soothes
the tempest in my mind
and their love
can heal the wounds that I have wrought.
They watch me as I go to fall.
Well, I know I shall be caught
while the angels live.
How can I be free?
How can I get help?
Am I really me?
Am I someone else?
But stalking in my cloisters
hang the acolytes of gloom
and Death's Head throws his cloak into
the corner of my room
and I am doomed.
But laughing in my courtyard
play the pranksters of my youth
and solemn, waiting Old Man
in the gables of the roof:
he tells me truth.
I, too, live inside me
and very often don't know who I am.
I know I'm not a hero.
Well, I hope that I'm not damned.
I'm just a man,
and killers, angels, all are these
dictators, saviours, refugees
in war and peace
as long as Man lives...
I'm just a man,
and killers, angels, all are these
dictators, saviours, refugees…