Der Tod [English translation]

It's 12 o'clock in the night

Outside a storm is going

knells are rining

Again somebody

gotta get burried

Death is a fair man

Nomatter if you're poor or rich

"Dead means dead"

Says the worm

AS a corps everybody's the same

You can be lazy all your life long

Or being busy as hell

Five days after death has got you

Everybody stars to

To rot

And how I'm talking here like that

About the Grim Reaper

am I hearing outside someone screaming

Alk is freezing in your veins

"Everybody"

"Everybody"

Black Coat, black hat

A scary figure!

And he's got a scythe

And an egg timer!

Slowly getting closer

Knocking on the door

I'm smelling an aspiration of murder

And he says to me

"Hello!

I'm death!

Over's your distress

Come-- you're time has passed

C'mon don't fuss

It's me--

Godfather Death!

I'm answering to the Godfather

"Come in and come closer

but I don't by a scrythe

I've got a lawnmower!"

"You gotta be starving

You're just bones

Shall i cook a "Jägertee"*

or a soup?"

He takes the first tea, then the next and the next

He's tossing it down into his carcasse

But he's only burning his theeth

Cause he's missing his lips!

But then he takes his egg timer

My hear are standing strait

He knocks on my shoulder

Conceiving himself again

"Hello!

I'm death!

...

He sharpens his scythe

"Before I start to mow you down

Go get me another Jägertee

One last Jägertee

But after the fifth drink

Is guy getting easier

He's shaking his bones

And steps on the "homebody"**

"Everybody!"

"Ev-ev-ev-everybody!"

"Listen it's a mistake

My name's not everybody!

you gotta go to Salzburg

Cause there death lives!"

I'm taking him to the train station

Train after train I have to carry him

I'm bying him a ticket

And am taking him to the diner

The train takes off

I'm feeling light

I'm waving

He wiggles his scythe

And says the the canteen operator

"Hello!"

"I am death!"

"Over's your distress!"

"Come brother, come!"

"Get me a Jägatee,

but with much rum!"

*(hunter's tee) black tea and rum

**little chaire, to put one's feet on for example, or in the old times common to be put in front of cow to sit on during milking, about sural high

• Artist:E.A.V.
• Album:Liebe, Tod & Teufel