I don't want to be what you see in me
I'm not what I seem, I've never been
I'm still the same person behind the mask
remember me, keep the door open all the time

no more life behind the bars
I don't want to be a prisoner in this life
let me out of this foul play
this mediocrity, this stupid pose

it's like a dinner in the unknown
with a gluttering candle, a too strong perfume
music I don't like, people I won't like
me sitting naked on my chair

I asked you to be my guide
but you kept silent till it hurt
the evil was already in the heart
waiting to break free at last

and the wind was going through the leaves
played with them and dropped them
on the ground like me empty
'cause they were of no use any more

it's always like this, no matter how I try



(c) Jo Casters - Marianne Valvekens - Herman Gillis - 1989 BE's Songs