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My grandfather took a strip of paper "Do you want to see something magic?" He asked I nodded "Look," he said "One side, two sides But if I give it twist before I glue it, it only has one side" I knew that was imposible I took a pen and traced along it and wound up Somehow Back where I began "Only one side!" he said "What do you think will happen if I cut it? Into two? Along the middle of the strip?" "Two loops?" I said He showed me how to cut, and I cut along the strip It opened into one enormous loop Then he made anothеr strip, this time he twisted it twicе before he glued it I cut Now there was two loops, alright But they were linked, connected, one through the other one "Magic." I said "That's right," he said, "magic! It's all in the twist. It's the twist that brings you back where you started." And I'm walking along along the strip now SongtexteThinknig that there are two sides to every question, two sides to every coin That the world is what I think it is And that memory plays you straight And nothing is tricky And I'm walking on I build a place, and I plan my life And every time I plan the world twists Not much! Just a half turn from where I thought I'd be And the plans are somehow on the other side of where I wanted to turn up And when I try to cut someone out of my life, I discover we're still linked There's back and there's forward, when I start out But the further forward I go, I'm no further away from back! I'm a child, and I'm an adult, and I'm a parent, and I'm a grandfather And in the end I'm returning to a place I remember When we forget: When we forget everything Forget the past as we forget the future Then the last twist takes us back And so I'm showing a small child how to make a mobius strip, take the paper, and I give it half a twist before I glue it down I'm old now, and I'm young I'm somewhere on the strip We all are, walking the sign of infinity into the darkness And I'm looking for signs of a life, in a memory Reflected in the mirror, I'm a mobius strip We all are We only ever see one face, it's the twist that brings you back where you started Aus Songtexte Mania