It's tragic-keeps on happening all the time
   It's the kind of thing that I fear
   I feel I'm making no headway
   Walls I know are starting to disappear
  
   It's like they'd never existed, strange but true
   As sure as I'm talking to you
   Now you see it, now I don't want to frighten you
   But I'm simply here standing alone
  
   [Chorus I:]
   Trapped in these shadows that belong to missing persons
   Names faded from memory join the list and then mark time
   Once I would have been glad to have made your acquaintance
   Now I feel a danger brought about by circumstance
  
   Obsessed, the quality of life escapes me now
   It's one of the things I lack
   From the east and to the west
   I feel it's time that I was heading back
  
   I can't control these feelings that I have
   I've never been one to hide
   Become a pillar of society
   But don't let your morals slide
  
   [Chorus II:]
   Or you can find that you've become a missing person
   A here today gone tomorrow breeze and lost in the night
   Once I would have been glad to have made your acquaintance
   Now I feel a danger brought about by circumstance
  
   But I know in the end, I'll be safe, we'll be happy
   After finding myself we'll be fine
   Any problems we have will be gone in a moment
   I'll become just a state of the mind
  
   I want you close
   I need you near
   You have to be here
   I turned around
   You've gone again
  
   [Chorus I]
  
   [Chorus II]