Das Narrenschiff Lyrics


So this is your world, the old ship of fools

Where treachery controls and distortion rules

Jokers and jesters, a warmonger swarm

Who laugh in the face of the coming storm

From axes of stone to lethal rays

Madness takes over and mankind obeys

Thieves and tricksters inherit the land

To feast on the flesh of the patient hand

And it’s all the same since dawn of men - carousing clowns

You bear fever and slaughter all over the land

To taint the ground

You choke Earth with your holy smoke

Cut her lungs out and carve her bones

Soak her skin in raw blood

And you never have enough!

Too late now - your foul design,

The traitors, the forgers and with time -

Your own, your own human

Nature will destroy you!

Destroy you!

Destroy you all!

In the final age of extinction you have to leave

And take your heavy hearts filled with grief

The regret and rue will follow you!

Run now and seek for a new home

As the ship ascends to the unknown

Go! Don’t look back evermore

Diseases will follow wherever you go

Serving violence and sinking so low

Lower and lower

Time to drown