The world disappeared, But only for an instant Then boundaries died And shape went extinct And the world reappeared as blackness Nothing was something, As huge as a thousand oceans They ripped pages out of books To build their fires They felt the earth vibrating Like a newborn child They stripped off all their clothes, They gave themselves new names Even god himself fell apart, Life itself became profane Notions of nations became a joke All bodies became beautiful On the day the deaf went blind The world disappeared, But only for an instant Then boundaries died
And shape went extinct And the world reappeared as blackness Nothing was something, As huge as a thousand oceans They ripped pages out of books To build their fires They felt the earth vibrating Like a newborn child They stripped off all their clothes, They gave themselves new names Even god himself fell apart, Life itself became profane They touched gra** for the first time They made love with Every inch of their bodies On the day the deaf went blind They touched gra** for the first time They made love with Every inch of their bodies On the day the deaf went blind