So sayeth life, the world is mine 
The flowers that bloom and the song of the birds 
I am the daylight and the sunshine 
So spricht das Leben, the world is mine 

So sayeth death, the world is mine 
Your daylight is but vein display 
Stars and moon sink in eternal night 
So spricht das Tod, the world is mine 

So sayeth life, the world is mine 
You make great tombs of marble and stone 
But love, you cannot entomb 
So spricht das Leben, the world is mine 

So sayeth death, the world is mine 
I have prepared a graveyard 
And created pestilence and war 
So spricht das Tod, the world is mine 

So sayeth life, the world is mine 
Every grave is a plot of land 
Into which my eternal seeds do fall 
So spricht das Leben, the world is mine