My painted face, I'm a clown,
And I'm laughing while my dream turns into a nightmare,
Fade away, I'm asleep,
Not too deep

The walls of night have left me scarred
The broken glass I stepped on, twice.
The ardent spirits' rusty edge, decapitate me

I can't sleep, fear darkness
Go through the motions, did I fall asleep?
I'm bowling, the old nine pin, a sign unwanted

Now I'm a target, I'm hot and frozen,
Stormy rain I'm stuck in an elevator
Wet from the muddy water,
Breathing hot air, winds convey me

Bababababaaaa
The number talks and I cry in my own Hell
Bababababaaaa
Wide awake, I'm asleep, see a friend as a ghost

I'm skating with a seal,
The tarantula, the fly, the broken ring
The dusty little flea
An ugly giant, a disappointed child

Here comes a rabid snake
The broken violin, a wild ballet
Shakespeare and company
Refuse to kill the kitten scratching me

I'm falling, I'm falling, I'm falling, I'm falling, awake

You know, if you believe the dreams, the nightly visions, worlds entwined
Then you also fear your shadow, paranoia, part two

All the good things in my life dwell in my mind
Took a wrong lane, every day, I hear myself say
Sickening's this feeling, my life, my hopes,
My dream's but a drop of fuel for a nightmare

They all turn out the same
My destiny, my flame
Believing is control?
No.
The painting comes alive,
Takes me inside a world without a name, a place beyond compare

Believe the dreams that let you sleep
The broken glass you need to sweep
The book you read; if you found an explanation
To help you in any way,
You are your own prison.

Woke up today,
The good and the bad and the ugly dreams are gone
Jumped off the carousel

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Everything written here is my own interpretation. You might or might not agree with me.

Basically this song is about a man who cannot control his own life. He is depressed, but wears a mask of happiness, which makes him a clown. In the song his “dream” can be interpreted as a nightmare — or his life. We’ll take a closer look at that.

As he falls asleep, his dream turns into a nightmare and he steps twice on the broken glass he attempts to avoid. He cuts his feet with the ruins of his own life, which he cannot avoid neither handle. He does not want to sleep and he fears the darkness. He doesn’t want to face his nightmares, which means he wants to escape the problems in his life. Eventually he falls asleep though, and we’re presented with many paradoxes describing a nightmare, in where his friends are haunting him as ghosts. His nightmare turns into a wild ballet as everything is mixed together, and soon he wakes up to face his life.

After he awakes he can’t tell dream from reality, which means that his life is like a nightmare — it’s ruined. He keeps thinking about the good things in life that he ruined, and that everything he does is wrong. He cannot undo the things he has done. As he is drawn into the nightmare again, it becomes his reality.

Now he is aware that he has to sweep the broken glass, but he just can’t do it. He can’t fix his own life, and he realises that his body is his own prison. To escape the nightmare, he commits suicide, and that is described by him waking up and jumping off the carousel, ending all the good, bad and the ugly dreams.

Everything written here is my own interpretation. You might or might not agree with me. Basically this song is about a man who cannot control his own life. He is depressed, but wears a mask of happiness, which makes him a clown. In the song his “dream” can be interpreted as a nightmare — or his life. We’ll take a closer look at that. As he falls asleep, his dream turns into a nightmare and he steps twice on the broken glass he attempts to avoid. He cuts his feet with the ruins of his own life, which he cannot avoid neither handle. He does not want to sleep and he fears the darkness. He doesn’t want to face his nightmares, which means he wants to escape the problems in his life. Eventually he falls asleep though, and we’re presented with many paradoxes describing a nightmare, in where his friends are haunting him as ghosts. His nightmare turns into a wild ballet as everything is mixed together, and soon he wakes up to face his life. After he awakes he can’t tell dream from reality, which means that his life is like a nightmare — it’s ruined. He keeps thinking about the good things in life that he ruined, and that everything he does is wrong. He cannot undo the things he has done. As he is drawn into the nightmare again, it becomes his reality. Now he is aware that he has to sweep the broken glass, but he just can’t do it. He can’t fix his own life, and he realises that his body is his own prison. To escape the nightmare, he commits suicide, and that is described by him waking up and jumping off the carousel, ending all the good, bad and the ugly dreams.

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