Dreaming or fighting, Or planning your life, Smiling or crying You’re just killing time. But time has no mercy It’s taking away All that you have gained, All your glory and shame.
Grim fire of Time Just burns to the ash Your name and your memory, Your soul and your flesh. No power, no gold Can make you forget About Sword of Time, That is over your head!
Time is often too fast And often too slow, And nobody knows When it strikes its blow. Unspoken desires... Not tasted delights... Broken illusions And eternal night.
Some drawn their sorrow In wine and delights, Others believe In their merciful fate Some look for glory, Some look for a fight, Some look for wisdom, But always too late.
What for all this fighting, All words, thoughts and lusts, If Time drowns them in darkness And turns them to dust? When your time is over You just feel deceived. What will be your estate? Just ashes you leave!
Kings, heroes and slaves Once meet sunset of life And fall down, overtaken By the Sword of Time. But who is its master? And what was his price For key to eternity And for Sword of Time?
Will there ever come The one who can win Eternal chains of doom And destiny’s whirls? One who can fight Sorrow inside, Fears of death And frustrations of life!
Some drawn their sorrow In wine and delights, Others believe In their merciful fate Some look for glory, Some look for a fight, Then (they) all disappear In black oceans of night.