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Whether you will be death to me one day
Whether you still live when time devours me
No death will ever diminish your name
Even if every part of me is long forgotten

My word for you will be immortal
What my mouth quietly speaks for you
A royal tomb will be your grave for me
Your monument will be my tender poem

Don't cry to say goodbye!

Someone is at the door, you leave them standing
I wait forever in the empty hallway
In dreams, I see us walking together
Today over green meadows

Suddenly there is weeping in the world
As if a god had died tonight
I go away and wish more and more
That one day you will understand my world

Let me go in farewell!

Is death really that great
Are we really his
When we think of each other here in life
He is still among us

I know a secret
But I can't tell you