But silence-trera means nothing, or it's just for the rhyme. Cybele's Reverie
Childhood is very nice
Childhood brings magic
What to do when one has done everything?
Read everything, drunk everything, eaten everything?
Given everthing in truth and in detail,
When one has cried on all the rooftops,
Wept and laughed in the towns and in the country?
Childhood is the most real
The garden of new visions
The house, the house, of other times
The house, the house that we have left
And the silence
That penetrates me
Childhood is very nice
Childhood brings magic
What to do when one has done everything?
Read everything, drunk everything, eaten everything?
Given everthing in truth and in detail,
When one has cried on all the rooftops,
Wept and laughed in the towns and in the country?
Childhood is the most real
The garden of new visions
The house, the house, of other times
The house, the house that we have left
And the silence
That penetrates me
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A song so full of sadness that when understood in its totality it drives one to utter despair. The vanished innocence of wonder. The gardens of nostalgia, the backyards of childhood friends, the need to believe in eternity so as not be driven, like the narrator of the final lines of The Great Gatsby, into an idealized past:
"And one fine morning ---- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
When I hear this song I am grateful to God for delivering me from the futility of this sin-cursed world.