Behind the Mask Lyrics

Mask of a clown
A mask of smiling, hypocrisy
Mask of a clown
My mask
Alone I stand in the ring
Many thousand eyes
Look at me
Their faces
Turn to grimaces
I begin to hate them!

Nourished by laughter
Quenching my thirst
By the sources of grief
Hiding emotions
Behind the mask day by day
Leave alone with my fear

The show is over
The music goes dumb
The laughter is silent
The dream is dead

I take off my mask
And see into my face
My mouth
Distorted to a smile
A tear rolls
Across my cheek
A single tear
A tear, lost in eternity
It burns a hole
A deep hole in my soul

The voice of my
Heart screams
Deadly wounded
Never touched
Drowned in the sea of sorrow
Suffocated by life
Hopeless imprisoned
Behind my deeds
Crushed under the mask

Lay me down to
Sleep and dream
In the tent, a dead clown
Lies on the ground
Blood drops into the sand
The audience laugh
And applaud each laughter
Hits a new wound
Into the dead flesh

I wake up in the morning
Time for my entrance
Enter the tent
The mask in my face

Banished
The emotions of hate
But a knife in my hands