Dead (International) - Hanging Illusions lyrics

(Words from ca**ette insert) Is there another sadness besides that of d**h? Definitely not, because true sadness is black, devoid of charms, and dreamless. There is greater weariness in sadness than in melancholy, And it drives one to disgust with life, to acute depression. The difference between sadness and pain: The former is dominated by reflexivity While the latter is weighed down by the fatal materiality of sensation. They both lead only to d**h, never to love or erotic exaltation. Eros means unmediated living in the secret necessity of life, Which – given the essential innocence of any erotic experience – Creates the illusion of liberty. To be sad or suffering, on the other hand, Means to be incapable of participating directly And organically in the flux of life. Sadness as well as suffering reveals existence for us, For only through them do we acquire consciousness of our separation From the objective world, that anxiety Which confers a tragic character upon our existence.