Padat [English translation]

By the green baize

By the dead man's hand

By the strong beverages

By the forked tongues

By the beauties

By the hemlines made of lace

By the full house, I walk to the backlight

to the sparkling stones

Death does its part, brings to the table, asks to begin

Knaves like dead men, five of bones are nailed to the clubs

Until the dark queen of the night has vanished with hearts as her hostage

The Joker stays behind, the darkest spades of life as his trump

Time for the bloody work

under the smooth leaden sky

I go through the hail of bullets, lowering the top of my head

to the care of the sparkling stones

Death does its part, brings to the table, asks to begin

Knaves like dead men, five of bones are nailed to the clubs

Until the dark queen of the night has vanished with hearts as her hostage

The Joker stays behind, the darkest spades of life as his trump