Love and hate they are not blind But blinded by the fire they carry within Appearing as a state of mind Preserve in silence so bear it and grin So spoke the son of the preacher In apathy and delirium In mutism and blindness He's trapped inside a terrestrial cage Made of his own flesh and bones Once with the tallest words, now in such a vast agony Once with the tallest words, now in such a vast agony Contradictions will become verdicts once again over love And hate over plague and blessing Contradictions will become verdicts once again over love And hate over plague and blessing It is the thinking one who overthinks the emotion Who clothe it in words and ravishes it's feeling Shall it be the fool Who actually feeling Or is it just today's trend to concern one self with love Yesteryear seems to be cold But isn't warmth just a fiction of the modern era Is it defining the authority over Everybody else or the subservience to them Love and hate they are not blind But blinded by the fire they carry within Appearing as a state of mind Preserve in silence so bear it and grin So spoke the son of the preacher In apathy and delirium In mutism and blindness He's trapped inside a terrestrial cage Made of his own flesh and bones Once with the tallest words, now in such a vast agony Once with the tallest words, now in such a vast agony Contradictions will become verdicts once again over love And hate over plague and blessing Contradictions will become verdicts once again over love And hate over plague and blessing Over plague and blessing