A Secret to Hide
Do you believe there is a meaning? Do you believe there is a god out there? All the stories going round in my head All the people I can't understand Many times I think and wonder The pain when I'm going under This time I fear the silence Somehow I can't deny this This time I'm waiting for you Hold on, what can I do? This life won't let you know Oh lord, what can I do? Every time I hear the thunder I'm so close to believe in wonder This time I drown in silence So weird I can't describe it This time I'm waiting for you Hold on, what can I do? This life won't let you know Oh lord, what can I do? Scare in my eyes - a glittering shine The moment I call out your name Give me the power to let you appear No heaven, no hell that I fear The end of the day flows into the night I am leaving the past to retry So many ways in a magical life Knowing my time will come This time I'm waiting for you Hold on, what can I do? This life won't let you know Oh lord, what can I do? This life won't let you know Until you're finally old
Submitted by johnmansley — May 10, 2026
All the day I've tried so hard to scare And frighten all the emptiness away Every time my tongue will tell the same Hope to end before I'll pass away Soon the day will be the final day My aim is to strain But time is going to fade No excuse to work another day Life is too short to waste your time away I'm killing the time I've got to leave it behind I'm willing to understand I'm willing to try Hollow phrases can be so unkind I'm filling the line Words are bleary Like a cold December rain No stars shine through those skies To light a brighter day I found no reason For the emptiness inside The lies they told us Cause the words I want to say I'm begging for time I've got to leave it behind Some of them made no sense Some of them lied No more phrases - words need time to grow I'm begging for time Some of them made no sense Some of them lied Hollow phrases can be so unkind I'm filling the line
Submitted by johnmansley — May 10, 2026
I carry the weight of my mortal remains A long distant nightmare extends in my veins My body's just lent for the time of my life No claim to use it till the end of the time I'm going to know where I'll stake My bones when my flesh will decay On my way to the endless unknown Into the ground - I am going down From the day the worms come around To the place where my bones lay down On the day my sun is going down There's a place where I'm gonna stay In the haze where the lost can be found I am made out of flesh and bone No, leave it behind Now you see the darker side of life No more sorrow and pain For all the ones you left alone I'm going to know where I'll stay There's nothing to save me from pain On my way to the endless unknown Into the ground - I am going down What remains is a bag of my bones While the rest eaten by the worms Take my body for the hopeless to cure Where I go I don't need it anymore In the space where my dust can be found I'm just made out of flesh and bone On my way to the endless unknown Into the ground - I am going down From the day the worms come around To the place where my bones lay down On the day my sun is going down There's a place where I'm gonna stay In the haze where the lost can be found I am made out of flesh and bone
Submitted by johnmansley — May 10, 2026
Rain down to fill my dreams To green the desert lands Run deep to reach the ground Just like an endless stream I've sown the seeds of green And given them all they need I know this can't be real Life is a mystery Time will show if the seeds will grow Treat them right until they see the light I fought an endless fight Against the barren sites With every sunlight beam Life is a mystery Time will show if the trees will grow Make them climb up into the sky When I look into my eyes I can see that I must die When I'm helping life to grow I will grow beyond myself When I look back upon my life I've tried to green it everywhere I can't close my eyes from gray I want to reach eternity There was a secret in my dreams That even time will never reveal I will only fade into the ground Just to keep the spark alive And when the autumn's near The leaves will fall on me And when my days are done My body feeds them one by one Time will show if the seeds will grow Treat them right until they see the light Treat them right until they see the light
Submitted by johnmansley — May 10, 2026
Time goes by Over the land I see the sand falls Laying all down on me Tide goes We'll never know if there's a chance To change the time that has gone now Going to save all my dreams Until the times has come Where I can find my way With eyes closed I feel every wave against the shoreline But there is one thing I fear... The time - you'll never know the time is right The place - you'll never see a better place Inside - you never know where you should go You have to live within the veil If life goes wrong... Can you read it in my eyes? Can you see it in my face? I won't lie to save my gain, my pleasure There must be a different life Can I hold it in my hands? Better read between the lines forever Give me the power to believe Give me the power to believe In what I am feeling When do I know that the time is right? How will I know how to do what is right? How do I know if it's right how I am living? Running away - why are you running away? Going to save all my tears Until the time comes Now that I found a place The child grows I'm feeling so weak against the tight wall But there is nothing to fear... The time - you'll never know the time is right The place - you'll never see a better place Inside - you never know what you should do You have to die within the veil But life goes on... The time - you'll never know the time is right The place - you'll never see a better place Inside...
Submitted by johnmansley — May 10, 2026
[The used quotes are taken from the movie "The Great Escape", directed by John Sturges and released in 1963] [Oberst von Luger:] One man here has made 17 attempted escapes. Group Captain, this is close to insanity. [Group Captain Ramsey:] Quite. [Oberst von Luger:] And it must stop! [...] [Captain Virgil Hilts:] I was trying to cut my way through your wire because I want to get out. [...] [Oberst von Luger:] Hilts, isn't it? [Captain Virgil Hilts:] Captain Hilts, actually. [Oberst von Luger:] 17 escape attempts. [Captain Virgil Hilts:] 18, sir. [Oberst von Luger:] A tunnel man, engineer. [Captain Virgil Hilts:] A flier. [Oberst von Luger:] I suppose what's called in the American army a hotshot pilot. [...] [Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett:] We'll call them Tom, Dick, and Harry. If the goons find one, we'll move into the other. [Flight Lieutenant Andy MacDonald:] How many men do you plan to take out, Roger? [Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett:] Two hundred and fifty. [...] [Captain Virgil Hilts:] Hold on to yourself, Bartlett. You're twenty feet short. [Squadron Leader Roger Bartlett:] What do you mean, twenty feet short? [Captain Virgil Hilts:] You're twenty feet short of the woods. The hole is right here in open. The guard is between us and the lights. [...] [Oberst von Luger:] I... I am directed by higher authority to inform you that... that fifty of your officers were shot while escaping. [Group Captain Ramsey:] Shot? How many of the fifty were wounded? [Oberst von Luger:] None.
Submitted by johnmansley — May 10, 2026
A restless sleep like a spiral rotation I saw your face, the spark in your eyes In serpentines a way down to your dungeons A certain place that nobody knows You spread your hate and spit out your anger I saw a man that nobody knows You lose control - you are lost in a tumble Caught in a maze you are willing to show I have got the feeling tonight I ain't gonna wake up and die Cause there's a man in my brain I guess we're two of a kind I have got a secret to hide I am gonna losing my mind But when the tension has gone I don't feel very much right You look so strange - the face in the mirror An empty shade as I look in your eyes A secret voice is starting your engine I found your trace and I am willing to go There is a feeling that I can't explain My minds divided and it's driving me insane I have got the feeling tonight I ain't gonna wake up and die Cause when my demons have gone I am gonna make it tonight I have got a secret to hide I am gonna losing my mind Cause when the magic has gone I don't feel very much right
Submitted by johnmansley — May 10, 2026
You can feel there's something strange In all your life A constant shape, a chasing shadow Along your way You believe there is something strange In every life The ones before, who had raised the bar Steer your wheel You have seen it a thousand times The more you'll try the more you fail There was a piece of your wasted life Nobody knows the way to nowhere See your life with your father's eyes You can feel he is close tonight Work until your fingers bleed You will never reach his own gain When will I free myself From the pain that I restrain All that I could have found Was a slave within my brain How can I be myself? This moment feels like fire is falling Get me right out of your shade And right into my life See your life through your father's eyes This moment feels like a chain inside When life gets hard I see your face When time won't heal I need advice You taught so much, to feel no pain But in the end you made me cry See the child with the doubts inside Father you left with high demands Every chance, every step you'll take You will never make it alright When will I free myself From the the ones that I have known All my life until now I was proud to get along I'm on my way to myself This moments feels like a sire is calling Let me step out of your shade And right into my life
Submitted by johnmansley — May 10, 2026