European Soul

I want to tell you of a place that I recall Where you're drawn by the seduction And the beauty of it all You can step into another world Of poetry and dreams In a land of mystery Images dance, translucent colours seem to shine They're a ghostly recollection Of another space and time I imagine I can hear their voices calling me To the land of mystery Where the Russian heart is strong Like the beating of a drum Where the magic lingers on And the fight for truth is won Deep in the European soul And love's eternal flame was burning deep inside It was the purest inspiration That he never tried to hide When you see the lovers floating You can almost hear them sigh As you watch them dancing Up into the sky The world's realities are not to be denied But must we keep destroying all our fantasies It's hard to look beyond when terror fills our eyes We mustn't give up trying to let our dreams survive I touch the paintings with the fingers of my heart Like a supernatural love affair that's just about to start But there'll always be the hidden dreams I'll never see In the land of mystery