Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows - Little Velveteen Knight | Текст песни

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• Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows
• Little Velveteen Knight

Infants like phantoms,
Denied and suspected,
Their existence discovered
Always when least expected.
Prepared for the day, the knight,
He just cannot keep
The perfect mask in its place,
When he is falling asleep.

Faces slacken in slumber,
Each rigid muscle relaxes,
Without warning the hidden child
Comes to the surface.
From the deepest darkness,
Some unnameable place,
Of the tower inverted,
Forms a different face;

Climbing upwards with effort,
To see through the eyes...
Windows to the soul - now shut -
They are staring inside.
And while the outside beholder
Sees the face of a child,
This fearful and helpless infant
Turns to a wild beast inside:
Becomes the architect
Of the most terrible dreams
And puts a cruel Fear of Death
Into our hero's sleep...
This child is a dragon,
Who you must strive to kill,
Though it defeated you once...
And, yes, it always will!

Oh, little velveteen knight
(And heroes of all kinds),
Endeavour to slay the dragon...
(...and yourselves when you try)!
Yes, this monster's immortal...
And your fight is in vain,
It only will last forever:
Some monsters cannot be slain.

This infant's a beast and
The dragon's its guardian,
Protecting his child,
So that no one can harm it.
Their most gruesome shape
Puts the Fear of Death
Into our supposed
(But velveteen) hero...

* * *

...Yet you must get me right:
There is no choice for the child,
Its intentions are good and always upright.
Tell me, why do you frown?
Do you bare questions... or doubt?
Have you not recognised
That the dragon and the child,
Are in fact more than kin...
They represent the same thing!
And all our characters
That you will see or seem
Are merely part of the dreamer...
And therefore the dream.