A child in sweet duplicity

For innocence? Or slavery to nature

And the bents that haunt him straight out of the womb?

He doesn’t have to learn the things unseemly that his instinct brings

To carry like a burden from the cradle to the tomb

You’ll never have to teach him how to lie

If we are born in innocence, well, don’t you wonder why?

For selfishness already dwells inside

The birthright of Adam, the curse of the old man



Day and night

Jekyll and Hyde in the fairytale

This is much more frightening

Darkness and light

Feed the new man and tear the veil

See the old man dying



Behold the loving family man

Who tries to do the best he can

And loves his wife and children even more than his own life

But just like that, a wandering eye leads to a suffocating lie

And selfishness and deep betrayal cuts them like a knife

If mankind doesn’t have a sinful drive

Then tell me why he’d wreck his life to get some on the side?

The warring of two natures deep inside

Starving the new keeps the old man alive



Soulsickness nailed to a cross



[Solo: Jon]

[Solo: Val]

[Harmonies: Val and Jon]



Humankind in innocence, a lie so thinly veiled

Man born without Soulsickness: this is the fairytale

Hide in the fairytale