The word gracht (Dutch pronunciation: [ɣrɑxt]) (plural: grachten) is a Dutch term that is encountered by English-speaking people when confronted with Dutch art (e.g. 17th-century town-views of grachten), Dutch history (Anne Frank House on the Prinsengracht) or tourism (boating tours on the grachten of Amsterdam). The word is almost untranslatable; for that reason the following terms kanaal, vaart, gracht and singel will be discussed here first.
It feels like a part of me
is falling asleep
And there will be
no chance for awakening
The ship of death awaits me to embark
An endless journey - the ascension of mine
I stand in front of the holy shrine
But I forever renounce Christ
I thought to leave - forever the light
when I had the never known wisdom
to cast a forgotten spell of sight
To open the hidden gate to freedom
of the ones who rest - forever in peace
I follow myself - to the ruins of pain
Where old wounds do open wide
Hurted by drops of blood - the red rain
of remembrance that will never remain
I imagine their souls - uneven in the dark
No chance for being released
as grave candles illuminate the grief
Believe in Me!