Slow or fast, time will pass I melt like the ice cubes In your empty glass Fast or slow, time will go Crawling around this anthracite town I don't know what to do With the freedom that I've found But neither do you, do you? Tell me how and I will do it now Short-sighted and frightened While my passport expires Haunted by nightmares of medicine choirs Bird's feet in concrete Rising as I fall to my knees Footsteps echo in a language I forgot Back when I was restless And I didn't know when to stop The hands of the clock Are all tied up in knots Tell me how and I will do it now