Once Songtext
von Art of Simplicity

"I remember momma reading me a bedtime tale,
As thousand unaccountable stimoulants were passing over me."

"I remember when I was feeling unconcerned in the playgrounds of my
Vicinity, and that everything was
Just a great play with me as protagonist.
I remember all the myths and epic battles,
As I′m sitting in the bench where sometime I was eating my carefree
Ice cream, but now I'm smoking as I recollect a time where everything
Was purely beautiful,
And the words coming from my parents mouth weren′t any disturbing.
Then...
When the world would end in a burst of delight and fireworks and
Everyone would heave into paradise,
Not with the misery... the decline...
All lost in an obscured, neverending void."


Circling around the neighborhood...
Reliving almost forgotten memories...
Thinking of what he wanted to be...
Considering if he is happy now...

"I remember when there was God.
I remember when there was freedom,
And all those things now seem strangely,
As if you recalled a fable that someone recounted you when you were a
Child, a childish story that now makes no
Sense, though you really wish it was true."

He acts like he's in a movie...
He wonders if everyone's the same...
If all the nursery rhymes...
Are guiding everyone′s life now

"Why this alluring sense of decline??!
Why can′t I detect life's simplicity??!
Should I embrace it just the way it is??!
Or should I wish I had never been born??!"

He′s flooded with mixed feelings...
Sad for everything he's not...
Happy for everything he dreamed...
And the walk through memory... lane has finally come to an end...