There is trouble in my mind
There is dark, there is dark and there is light
Lay your hands over my eyes
As I look deep, through valleys deep and wide
Across the borderline for the empire in my mind
You are the reason I don’t sleep
You are the light that’s breaking through the leaves
And you know how hard I try
To believe I have something good inside
All the barricades, I climb for the empire in my mind
I have known love, somewhere in time
I’ve been lifted up, I’ve looked honor in the eyes
I have no reason, I have no rhyme
I cannot deny there’s a darkness that’s inside
I am guilty by design and now I realize
The temptations made me blind to the empire in my mind
There is no order, there is chaos and there is crime
There is no one home tonight in the empire of my mind
There is no distance that I don’t see
I do have a world, no limit to my reach
I wish, I would, I wish, I might
To see a line tonight, separating wrong from right
As I am only born to try and maybe that’s the reason why
I’m afraid someday I’ll find there is no empire in my mind
Prevod pesme
Imperija u mom umu
U mojim je mislima nevolja
U njima je mrak, mrak i svetlost
Ruke mi na oči stavi
Dok gledam u dubinu, kroz doline, duboke i široke
Preko granice, ka imperiji u mom umu
Ti si razlog zbog kojeg ne spavam
Ti si svetlost što prodire kroz lišće
I ti znaš koliko se trudim
Da verujem da nešto dobro u sebi nosim
Preko svih barikada, ja se penjem, do imperije u mom umu
Znao sam šta je ljubav, nekada
Bio sam uzdignut, tražio sam čast u očima
Nemam nijedan razlog, nemam nijednu rimu
Ne mogu da poreknem da je u meni tama
Kriv sam što sam živ i sada shvatam
Iskušenja su me sprečila da vidim imperiju u svom umu
Nema reda, postoji haos i postoji zločin
Večeras nikog nema u imperiji uma mog
Ništa nije tako daleko da ja ne vidim
Ja imam jedan svet, sve mogu doseći, bez granica
Voleo bih kada bih, voleo bih kada bih mogao
Večeras, videti crtu, koja razdvaja pogrešno od ispravnog
Jer ja sam rođen samo da bih pokušao i možda je to razlog što
Bojim se da ću jednog dana uvideti da u mom umu imperije nema