Since I was a child, I've seen her in a dream A captured fairy tale that echoes across my life And though I've courted her, she's always stayed unseen Now all at once she glitters in the night But that was yesterday, and that was all before When she was far away, a silhouette of dreams But others whispered that she was so much more And suddenly I now know what they mean Dreams change, years strain, lost illusions Blessed and God's hand, absolution found Fairy tale sins, visions by Grimm All forgiven, life spent in vain Never reclaimed, take their final vows Pictures and words, visions absurd Maddened poets falleth in sight Failures in life, who'll never know it Lazarus cries, there in his eyes Hope has risen, death and facade Forbid, forbidden Vienna *