Can't help remembering,
t'was just the night before;
I dreamed you had me trapped in a strange machine.

(C'est trop cher,
pour que j'abandonne
mes
chimères.)

When I gave up my demons, you swore I'd be
the queen of everything.

You placed your beating heart into my hand.
That was your plan, my love.

But now I find your kingdom
is narrow as a tightrope under my feet.

Now that you have me by your side, how can you remain so
very displeased?

Ask all the stars, they protest my future lies with
you.
But like any ignorant human, I have the will to
choose.

Love me once,
Love me twice,
Lift me up into the sky.
And in this strange
machine called hope,
let me go.

Did you conceive of Paradise?
I see it when you reach in to close my eyes.

And when you carry me blind through this kingdom within our minds, you
are my king.

Come heaven or hell, there will be no survivors to say
I could not break your spell.

I am a deserter, and I'll always wonder
why I
couldn't do that to you, my friend.

Love me once,
Love me twice,
Lift me up into the sky.
And in this strange
machine called hope,
let me go.

I know I might
fall down
and crash into the ground, crash into the ground--
I know I might
fall down
and crash into the ground, crash into the ground--

I know I might
fall down,
but lift me up, my love;
and in this strange
machine called hope,
let me go.