Time-Zeit - Coppelius

By a wiser man he was told

«Time is your enemy as you get old»

Now faced with his mortality

He thought «I´ll live my life intensely»

I´ll be no man of lesser will

Top every mountain, cross every hill

I´ll live ten days to your one

And will not rest ´til all prices won

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Vergiss niemals, Du wirst alt mein Kind!

To seize all time is my secret

I´ll possess what you´ll never get

I will do everything, nothing´s too much

Every good looking thing I will touch

All world wonders I will see

Only sleep five hours … that´s the key

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Vergiss niemals, Du wirst alt mein Kind!

He worked like hell everyday

Said «When I die I´ll sleep anway»

Died in his prime, acted in haste

The beauty of life he didn´t taste

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Vergiss niemals, Du wirst alt mein Kind!