[Instrumental – Violin Solo] [Intro] (What is life? Who will tell me so?) (No one knows how long – perhaps it’s not by chance we go.) (And what is death? Who will tell me so?) (For life is finite – but death... endless flow.) [Drop] [Verse] Life and death are turning, like a spindle’s wheel, Cradle and coffin – they trade the deal. This is the law, the treasure of our stay, We live, we die – and then it all fades away. Meanwhile we learn how silence speaks, To share our bed with indifference. Frozen – living without a life, Laughing while the tears burn our eyes. We’ll learn to greet the fools politely, To flatter, while raging inside so quietly. To cheer when they trample us down from above – And then to say: “I’ve mastered life enough.” [Verse – lazily, melancholic storytelling] My dearest friends – it is just the same, as that old man in the Grimm’s dark tale. Suddenly life thought of him, and we began to speak: “Once upon a time…” Then the heavy sky crashed upon his chest, and we wept: “There never was…” So here he lies, who fought to rise higher, Now stiff, silent – his own frozen statue. No tear, no word, no cure can wake him again. Once upon a time – and then never again. When his soul, already broken, could barely go on, God embraced him softly – suddenly – and he was gone. [Pre-Chorus] To die is easy, but to live is harder still. To love and to fear – what could be more human, more real? .... [Chorus – stratospheric] Oh, life – you beautiful lie! And death? – you painful truth that won’t deny! I will miss, I’ll miss so much: the earth, the trees, the stars above! But what hurts more – that I won’t be missed at all, by the world, when I fall.u [Verse – avant-garde, growing tension] So we feed on death, and so he feeds on us. Our lives are no longer our own, wild flesh grows over our hearts. Why do the dead ask questions, who in life were silent shadows? Why is death so loud? Why exists what does not exist? Why does it hurt – when it doesn’t matter? Once-people – Even if gone, there are still wonders here! Doing nothing, Wanting nothing – yet they keep dying further. [Verse – rising tension, harsh rhythm] Then one night, the wall begins to move, And silence roars straight into the heart – and the scream bursts out! The ribs ache, the noise is tight, behind it the heartbeat, trained by strife – groans, then stops. Silently the body rises, only silence screams. And the heart, the hand, the mouth all know: This is death. “Death!” (Death) (Death) (Death) [Melody] [Pre-Chorus – spoken] To die is easy, but to live is harder still. To love and to fear – what could be more human, more real? .... [Chorus – stratospheric] Oh, life – you beautiful lie! And death? – you painful truth that won’t deny! I will miss, I’ll miss so much: the earth, the trees, the stars above! But what hurts more – that I won’t be missed at all, by the world, when I fall. [Outro – whispered, low voice] (My all-knowing skin has understood it all:) (The snow of winter, the heat of summer.) (The day and the night.) (I have understood everything: life – and death.) [Rising mood] [Intro – dark, mysterious, powerful ending] “After my death, do not search for me!” “For I will be nowhere!” “And I will be everywhere!” [End]
