The Visitors

I hear the doorbell ring and suddenly the panic takes me

The sound so ominously tearing through the silence

I cannot move, I'm standing numb and frozen

Among the things I love so dearly

The books, the paintings and the furniture, help me

The signal's sounding once again

And someone tries the door-knob

None of my friends would be so stupidly impatient

And they don't dare to come here anymore now

But how I loved our secret meetings

We talked and talked in quiet voices, smiling

Now I hear them moving

Muffled noises coming through

The door, I feel I'm crackin' up

Voices growing louder, irritation building

And I'm close to fainting, crackin' up

They must know by now I'm in here trembling

In a terror ever growing, crackin' up

My whole world is falling, going crazy

There is no escaping now, I'm crackin' up

These walls have witnessed all the anguish of humiliation

And seen the hope of freedom glow in shining faces

And now they've come to take me

Come to break me and yet it isn't unexpected

I have been waiting for these visitors, help me

Now I hear them moving

Muffled noises coming through the door,

I feel I'm crackin' up

Voices growing louder, irritation building

And I'm close to fainting, crackin' up

They must know by now I'm in here trembling

In a terror ever growing, crackin' up

My whole world is falling, going crazy

There is no escaping now, I'm crackin' up

Now I hear them moving

Muffled noises coming through the door,

I feel I'm crackin' up

Voices growing louder, irritation building

And I'm close to fainting, crackin' up

They must know by now I'm in here trembling

In a terror ever growing, crackin' up

My whole world is falling, going crazy

There is no escaping now, I'm crackin' up

Now I hear them moving

Muffled noises coming through the door,

I feel I'm crackin' up

Voices growing louder, irritation building

And I'm close to fainting, crackin' up

They must know by now I'm in here trembling

In a terror ever growing, crackin' up