Heavenly Crossroads

Almost at the end of my travels in this corner of paradise
Of oases and green banks
I can feel in these mirages the temptations of a place
Where I could finish my days, giving thanks.

Careless in this life
Without picking out a thread
I live an unreal dream
In the Kingdom without Dread.

No longer must I suffer, no longer must I choose
Everything's forgotten in the billows of the clouds!
Cut off from all the World, and with nothing left to loose
I will rest my soul at last; the silence will be loud.

But there's a heavy price to pay, if you're seeming to be dead.

I could go away for ever
I could give no more offence
But I want to be alive
To live without pretence.

I'll live life with all it's cares
I'll pick out at last a thread
I'll live at last my dreams
In a world that's what it seems.