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one I was a lady dressed in black and blueI used to walk the boulevard because that's what ladies domy nails were always polished, my secrets always hidI just did whatever it was that all the other ladies didat nighttime around my bedside I keep a million lightsone for every soldier who fought the war and diesfor my husband is a landlord whose eyes are full of greedand his army full of young men whom he never even seesbut now I am somebody else with golden books upon my shelves and diamonds on my mindstrolling through the woods at night to find the little bits of light others leave behindonce I was a soldier in the army of some lordI have never even seen him, I just got paid to hold his swordI kept my armour shiny and I kept my secrets hidand whatever I was told to do, that is what I didwhen I think about it now it's hard for me to saywhether I had a choice in life to do the things my waybecause by the time I heard about that lady's bedside stateI had already gone far to far and it was already too latebut now I am somebody else with golden books upon my shelves and diamonds on my mindstrolling through the woods at night to find the little bits of light others leave behindSongtexteonce I was a student, I had to pick up my degreeand I thought about the years gone by, the years that numbered threehow the things that had seemed important turned out to be a jokeand the things that had seemed natural had all gone up in smokeearlier a crowd had come to see me win my prizeI felt like I deserved it, it was justice in my eyesbut the only thing that I could think was 'what am I gonna do?when all of this is over, when my days if hope are through?'but now I am somebody else with golden books upon my shelves and diamonds on my mindstrolling through the woods at night to find the little bits of light others leave behind Aus Songtexte Mania