Παραλύω [Paralio] [English translation]

And the day seems like it has become one with the night

and death seems like is life for me,

and my heartbeat can be seen on the monitor

as a straight line.

And time, you accidentally stopped, seems like it

passed by on my face twice as much,

and has changed me.

And I feel the fear within my chest,

bitter like coffee remains at the bottom of a cup.

And I see the light in my mind

fading day by day,

and my face changing in front of the mirror

becoming another, one I don't recognize

and one that creeps me out.

I'm paralyzed,

I feel the world falling at my feet

like I'm on the first day of school, in August

with the heat in my heart indicating -2°C.

I'm paralyzed,

the brakes are creaking, the horn is blearing,

the bus brushes past me

and I'm paralyzed in the thought I must still live without you.

And I see my life as a humongous wall

raising over the end of the road

and the children voices at the schoolyard

sound like a mournful march to my ears

and the road that once lead me

to your front door,

exists no more.