In the Country of Feeling

Come, let's go somewhere,
where no one will recognize you or me.
You'll have no pressing business,
I'll have no burden of study,
where no one will surround us,
...no one at all!

Just you and I will sit and talk endlessly.
I'll chatter away, and you
will quietly listen to all my chatter.
I'll act utterly mad, and you
will calmly, like a gentleman, bear with me.
Can't you? Wouldn't it be wonderful, tell me...if it were so?
Come on...let's go!

You're thinking perhaps, this is just some young girl's
overflowing pitcher of false, foolish emotions!
You may well think it! But that's what your outer
mask might think, your true face speaks differently!
When your mask turns my madness into annoyance,
right then your face will surely indulge it!
I know. You probably don't even know that much yourself!

And yes, what remains...
Madness! That...imagination, fantasy...!
In your sage words...false emotion!
That thing you so often say,
when faced with harsh reality, none of that will ever survive!
I get it, I get it, sir! No need to go on!
I was trying to take you beyond reality!
What then? And...?
Yes, now calculations remain!
That's there...will always be there!
But does that mean the heart's emotions can't overflow sometimes?
Without emotion, what harsh reality of today would have been born, tell me?
Would civilization's wheel ever have turned without emotion?

Come on...let's go!
Nothing much, just holding your hand
I'll think of your room as my own for a while...
to that land of feeling...will you come?