I hear the door-bell ring and suddenly the panic takes me The sound so ominously tearing through the silence I cannot move, I’m standing, numb and frozen Among the things I love so dearly The books the paitings and the furniture, help me The signal’s souding once again and someone tries the doorknob None of my friends would be so stupidly impatient And they don’t dare to come here anymore now But how I loved our secret meetings We talked and talked in quiet voices, smiling Now I hear them moving, muffled noises Coming through the door, I feel I’m cracking up Voices growing louder, irritation building And I’m close to fainting, cracking up They must know by now I’m in here trembling In a terror evergrowing, cracking up My whole world is falling, going crazy There is no escaping now, I’m cracking up These walls have witnessed all the anguish of humiliation And seen the hope of freedom glow in shining faces And now they’ve come to take me, come to break me And yet it isn’t unexpected I have been waiting for these visitors, help me Now I hear them moving, muffled noises Coming through the door, I feel I’m cracking up Voices growing louder, irritation building And I’m close to fainting, cracking up They must know by now I’m in here trembling In a terror evergrowing, cracking up My whole world is falling, going crazy There is no escaping now, I’m cracking up Now I hear them moving, muffled noises Coming through the door, I feel I’m cracking up Voices growing louder, irritation building And I’m close to fainting, cracking up (I have been waiting for these visitors) They must know by now I’m in here trembling In a terror evergrowing, cracking up (I have been waiting for these visitors) My whole world is falling, going crazy There is no escaping now, I’m cracking up (I have been waiting for these visitors) Now I hear them moving, muffled noises Coming through the door, I feel I’m cracking up (I have been waiting for these visitors) Voices growing louder, irritation building And I’m close to fainting, cracking up (I have been waiting for these visitors) They must know by now I’m in here trembling In a terror evergrowing, cracking up (I have been waiting for these visitors) My whole world is falling, going crazy There is no escaping now, I’m cracking up