Every night the skies pour rain / On bended knee / I hope and pray / I plead: Please
ease me of the pain / I suffer all throughout the day / I wish I wasn’t born this way / I
wish I wasn’t born to be... / But time / DNA, hope asunder, torn a-fray / A boy /
Benevolent, a bit bent, brain-bashed, malevolent / A man: meant to let his body lie o’er
the River Rhine / Time wore / A warm heart cold, hard as stone, all alone / These days /
I fall asleep unbearably in misery / From dreams (waking) of all I can’t have / Never will
be / “I will march, the lion prides / Head held high, with lion’s pride” / I fell myself /
Beneath the pale moonlight / On that plateau / A decade ago or so / If there’s a God /
He wasted 6 long days / Creating tragedy / I’d bleed for love / I long for touch / Face to
face / Warm embrace / To kill the pain...
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