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Give me Laugh everyone feels
Give me Pain if time should end
Give me High this dream that's
Give me nothing full of contradictions will...
Give me Laugh an insincere smile
Give me Pain for every lie told
Give me High love has lost
Give me nothing a place to go...

your unreachable love my unreachable love
even now, look at it...
your unreachable voice and my unreachable voice
even now, look at it... but.....

Give me Laugh with every time we've embraced
Give me Pain can I love you?
Give me High I who am
Give me nothing full of contradictions...

time will end time will change me, you, now, will be branded into the flow of time
time will stop at the end of time we'll kiss and then sleep in this love without warmth

An end begins a trivial matter.
It's a time to burn everything.
If I could forget you without hesitation...

Serious injury laughs at me.
The time is changing, the passage of time
burns me, you, now.

Solitude laughs as it likes.
You laugh as you look down.
The time is over, the time will stop, at the end of
the time, sleeping with a kiss to unheated death.

your unreachable love my unreachable love
even now, look at it...
your unreachable voice and my unreachable voice
even now, look at it...
the dream withers and returns to the sand will the dream bloom again someday
inside of me?
I can't recall the dream that left me will your voice reach
to my very core? but.....

time will end time will change me, you, now, will be branded into the flow of time
time will stop at the end of time we'll kiss and then sleep in this love without warmth

Give Me nothing if time should end


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    Not only are the lyrics partly about the flow of time, it's one of those ones that gives you a static feeling. That you're experiencing time flowing and many of the things we think matter really don't. (But that's just me.)

    windless_oneon February 17, 2007   Link

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