Strange how the world shrinks while you grow up   Some of it seems so long ago   It cannot really have been me at all      As future turns to past   Premonition turns to reminiscence   Reality to mythology   Doors open wide      Somehow some memories   Are growing ever stronger   Ever clearer   As doors begin to shut      Tell me why must my childhood's oceas turn into lakes   Horizons move ever nearer   The myth is easier to comprehend   As doors are being locked      Sweet was the sun – the sun that now is burning me   Clear was the rain – through which no longer I can see   And we did laugh – the conquerors, the chosen   Yet we could cry – now all my dreams are frozen   Who am I now – I want to take another step   What will I be – but my feet are heavy   Can I go on – I know time heals   Can I let go – yet I'm praying for the gods to turn is back      Let me relive the mystery   Let me conquer new horizons   Let me be afraid of the dark   Let me evaporate in sunlight   On those ancestral plains   Open me the gates of the lost realms      Is it only my mind that has painted this pictures   Of a rose with no thorns   As I fly on the wings of the cosmic eagle   The knowledge of the naive      If I could but learn to live in peace with my past   Not seeking to turn back time   But I know I would stand all the pain   Just to feel the pleasure again   Yes I know I would stand all the pain   Just to feel the pleasure again      Sweet was the sun – the sun that now is burning me   Clear was the rain – through which no longer see I can   And we did laugh – the conquerors, the chosen   Yet we could cry – now all my dreams are frozen   Who am I now – I want to take another step   What will I be – but my feet are heavy   Can I go on – I know time heals   Can I let go – yet I'm praying for the gods to turn is back      Let me relive the mystery   Let me conquer new horizons   Let me be afraid of the dark   Let me evaporate in sunlight   On those ancestral plains   Open me the gates to the lost realms      And I don't know who the old man is   Who sits there alone with his dreams   But I hope I'll never meet his eyes   I hope that he'll never tell me his name      And I don't know who the old man is   Who sits there alone with his dreams   But I hope I'll never meet his eyes   I hope that he'll never tell me his name      Let me relive the mystery   Let me conquer new horizons   Let me be afraid of the dark   Let me evaporate in sunlight   On those ancestral plains   Open me the gates to the lost realms   Let me relive the mystery   Let me conquer new horizons   Let me be afraid of the dark   Let me evaporate in sunlight   On those ancestral plains   Open me the gates to the lost realms