W czarnej urnie [English translation]

In the black urn of all my black years

A black lightning scorches a black flower down

Black suns die down, a black new moon rises

Let's hurry, before the black day is here again

Your golden body unfurls like smoke

It vibrates and flows with golden sweat, with me in it

Drowning in black, I'm drinking gold from your lips

Like I drank juice from broken birch trees that spring

But that world still keeps crawling forward around me

- of my bloodied hatchets, of your colourful tatters

A tangled circle around us keeps on tightening

More and more often we get terrified by the coldness of our hands

We can neither live alone, nor stay together

We can neither live alone, nor live without each other

No spasm could ever change

This fog that was like steel, again

Let's not try to chain ourselves to each other

with words one more time

The lifetimes of so many beings passed away in a moment

When was that? Maybe a week, maybe a century ago

Like autumn rain, time is falling on my straw bed

It washes down traces of my tears and your blood

And it slowly wraps in a cloak of oblivion

That night when we first spat in each other's faces

We would sing then, me - of happiness, you - of a lucky strike

We were like knives stabbed into each other, up to the hilts

With heart breaking of sadness, warm your cold fist

over the ashes - and now we can go

You - to your castles of mud, me - to stinky bars

And the house will be empty, like the Mayerling lodge

We can neither live alone, nor stay together

We can neither live alone, nor live without each other

I can hear your muffled voice

Crying, you're speaking bitter words

But I only have anger inside me now,

A cold fury, but no longer you

We can neither live alone, nor stay together

We can neither live alone, nor live without each other