Borders

once I had my own land

and I thought it fair

take a look at your map

and you`ll find it there

 

but now I cannot go back

`cause there`s a raging riot

they say that I have to leave this place

or I must surely die

 

and so I ran through the forest

and the burning plains

I swam through the waters

and the pouring rain

seen the foreign landscape

through the iron bars

I crowled under the fence

but the worst in the end

was hunger my friend

oh have mercy now

 

sometimes it only

takes a roaring night

a simple handshake

or the roll of dice

and you`ll be abandoned

for your skin or prayers

all your dreams will be chased away

as if they where never there

 

and then you run through the forest

and the burning plains

you drown in the waters

and the falling rain

You`ll see a foreign landscape

through the raging fire

you crawl under the fence

but the worst in the end

I`ve mentioned my friend

 

oh tell me now

where`s the place so quiet and open

and where to go?

this narrow path paves no way

oh let me know

where to find a heart so golden

that lends a helping hand

to let me live again

 

and as I was standing

at the edge of life

dreamt a man`s holding out his hand

with a little smile

see, it takes no wonder

or the arms of law

so listen my friend

the best in the end

is that you could be him now