Текст песни: Border Town Shades + перевод

Once more the train stopped

In the town of my irksome birth

And my contorted reflection

Was breaking away from

The silent spectacle behind

The old window’s cloudiness

Unspeakably blind eyes

Welcomed me home

With glances dedicated

To suspicious strangers

Who threatened the

Standstill

While I was crossing a ghost town

I reached the river on the edge

The stream was flowing cleaner

But dirtier in knowledge

Realizing the final decline

I remembered

Those companions

Who meant a lot to me

But who fed the unholy maw

Of jealous estrangement

The beginning rain became a flood

And a lunatic reverend screamed out of

The protestant’s house about wiping out

The evil through the hands of his Lord

I remembered the devil of my childhood

Who still was fairly alive

Revealing the old parson’s cursed lies

The murder of mine had failed twice though

In defiance of the devil’s willing hands

Those waters of the opened sky above

I reached my early childhood’s empty house

Which made me think of the woman

Who had given birth to me

Weakness had led to the betrayal of her son

And had been the devil’s strength

But through grey windows

I saw the light of my cloudy days

In the good eyes of that soul

Who had been stronger

Than her daughter

The subsiding rain washed away

The scum in the streets

But I saw a gross town dweller

Smugly swaggering along these streets

I recognized the one he never wanted to be

Walking on his circular trails

Once more the train

Would stop in the town

Of my irksome birth

Taking me away from

The river’s knowledge

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