This time the wind has blown me forwards From the sick and stinking harvest I've laid here much too long I feel like an old and restless sailor With his visions long forgotten A free will much to strong Raw caress Right then, when darkness fell around me And my fruits no longer ripened And end was coming near Returned from a safe self-chosen prison To a storm that ripped my heart out And took it far from here Pain and misery left its marks on me Start again from here Cold reality needs to be set free Chances now at hand Life's a raw caress It's a raw caress It's a raw caress to me It's a raw caress It's a raw caress It's a raw caress to me And now, as I gather up my back bone To rebuild it even stronger The clouds break up again It seems even if fortune is tragic That a sad tale finds an ending That's reconciled again Pain and misery left its marks on me Start again from here Cold reality needs to be set free Chances now at hand Life's a raw caress It's a raw caress It's a raw caress to me It's a raw caress It's a raw caress It's a raw caress to me Reach out, the old eternal time waves Are flowing on and on Look up, the dawn is soon awaking There's land in sight again Reach out, the old eternal time waves Are flowing on and on Look up, the dawn is soon awaking There's land in sight again Raw caress Pain and misery left its marks on me Start again from here Cold reality needs to be set free Chances now at hand Life's a raw caress It's a raw caress It's a raw caress to me It's a raw caress It's a raw caress It's a raw caress to me Life's a raw caress to me