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If I'm just born once in a lifetime Who am I to make things up? I count the stars but will they count me? Who am I to lift them up? "Who am I?" the soldiers ask me "Who am I?" ask the police Who am I but a reflection of that uniform beneath I was born on a forgotten day Born on a forgotten day but I own the night I own the night I snuck back through time hacks A mountain of stars over the sea The rippling torment of solitude I will reach you if only to shake you awake Beneath the crust and mantle of this planet is a birthplace A crystal of light peering through ocean breath and form I am as conscious of its eye as in my essence, I am I Both the music and the bombast of the storm I own the night and the stars bright as suns of distant galaxies I am the darkness of my earth-form holding space I own the night and the spectrum of awareness and fatality I take the form of every lover's face Deep in the eye in the moon-like satellite of every pupil I am the light in its wave-form I am grace I own the night and the dream-space of a planet in a planet I own the night that each day works to erase Aus Songtexte Mania