Vienna

Since i was a child

i've seen her in a dream

a captured fairy tale

that echoes cross my life

and though i've courted her

she's always stayed unseen

now all at once she

glitters in the night

but that was yesterday

and that all was before

when she was far away

a silhouette of dreams

but others whispered

that she was so much more

and suddenly i now

know what they mean

dreams change

years strain

lost illusions

last stands

god's hand

absolution

found

fairy tale sins

visions by grimm

all forgiven

lives spent in vain

never reclaimed

take their final bows

pictures and words

visions absurd

maddened poets

all within sight

failures in life

who'll never know it

lazarus cries

there in his eyes

hope has risen

depth and facade

all before me now