Nur ein Narr [English translation]

Examine carefully

Not to stumble blindly

Cheat Time

Incomprehensible

Our existence

Its meaning

Not to purchase memories

Infinity would be almost achieved

But at what price?

Curiosity

The urge to discover

Flesh and spirit

No matter whether yours or someone else's

Only one thing: enjoyment

Enrich the next generation

With one's own flesh

Yet -- why discover

If manipulating preceded learning?

Who is going to want to discover anything new

In the apparently empty universe

Instead of wanting to nibble at knowledge

While eternally young?

One moment for eternity

A place in the diary

An adventure

Just a game

One leap in the circus time of wise old men

Who is hunting whom?

The child the man?

The man the child?

United in one spirit temporarily

Not forever

Humans almost always fight just

For food or pleasure?

Cheat Time

Sometime or other Time will strike back

And chain one's understanding to the Past

Yesterday will be displaced by the magic of young years

The future still has no taste

No color

No face

Was that really everything?

Is Time devouring my dreams?

I'm spinning through fireworks

Out of human inhumanity

A man stays a child still

Say yes - not no

Only a fool cheats Time

Was that really all there was?