King of dreams I'm a real smooth dancer, I'm fantasy man Master of illusion, magic touch in my hand All the stages are empty when I steal the scenes A beggar of love, second hand hero The stages are empty when I steal the scenes It doesn't matter if I'm

Scarecrow's only scaring himself Sometimes the jail can't chain the cell All alone by a barren well Walking to the other side With the Devil trying to take my mind And my soul's just a silhouette On the ashes of a cigarette Illusions never fake their

My love must be a kind of blind love I can't see anyone but you And dear, I wonder if you find love An optical illusion, too? Are the stars out tonight? I don't know if it's cloudy or bright Cause I only have eyes for you, dear The moon may be high But I

I found out what it takes to be a man Now mom and dad will never understand Seventeen and strung out on confusion Trapped inside a roll of disillusion Secrets collecting dust but never forget Skeletons come to life in my closet What's happening to me

It's an illusion Can't believe what you hear Don't believe what you read Here and gone in a day Not what it seems this American dream Just drifting away After all that we've seem A complete waste of time Just a nursery rhyme

What's love but just some illusion we believe What's love but just some confusion we don't need Sittin' here It's closing time You've got your troubles and I bet they're just like mine Somebody told you goodbye But I know a way that can't go wrong Nobody

Ah, but that green grass on the other side Is just an illusion We all have our own confusion Looking out at the people looking in Feeling good must be some kind of sin Looking in at the people looking out Feeling guilty, scared to move about Looking up

My fears come alive In this place where I once died Demons dreaming Knowing I... I just needed to realign Decisions made from desperation No way to go Internal instincts craving isolation For me to grow Fell in a river of illusion

Panzers on a line from the Wehrmacht's spine Lethal grand design What about the men executing orders? Crazy madmen on a leash Or young men who lost their way? Grand illusions of the Reich May seem real at times Ad victoriam

Walk with me, your new beginning Religion and creed The eternal voice Beyond this door Illusions of peace Now and forever more Upon these wings This flight of greed