Reißende Blicke [English translation]

I'm sitting inside the cinema of my life

All seats are taken

My seat is just a dickey-seat

Too many people are here today

The light fades - the movie starts

Memories come up again

A distant past become present once again

A strange "me" stares at my face

I look around in the crowd

The whole cinema laughs

A cripple's drifting in the water

I get sick

I'm ashamed

A today impressed by yesterday

I remember th! at time

The question of life and death

Today I know the answerThat time I didn't -

I had made the wrong decision

And again the cinema laughs

I stand up and rush out

I've got to vomit

The hate hits me

Could they recognize me in the light?

Could they laugh at me again?

Why don't they all go home?

It's just my very private life

I'm coming back, my seat is taken

I quietly sit down on the floor

Yet I want to know what will happen to me

Yet I don't know my sins

I'm only hoping to die soon

Thus I don't have to stand it any longer

I'm sorry if my life disturbed somebody

But at least there was a movie they liked

The movie shows my death

Finally it's my turn to laugh

But thousand eyes turn round

And stare schocked at me.

• Artist:Lacrimosa
• Album:Einsamkeit (1992)