Perfection - Narziss

The craving for higher perfection

seduces the obsessed

Into estrangement of body and soul

Their cold glance wanders over burial mounds!

No stone remains unturned

No piece of earth unexplored

No live stays sacrosanct — No live stays sacrosanct

Nothing that couldn’t be changed

At his beginning he doesn’t foresee

that his time will exceed

At his end he will understand

the only thing that counts is his own agony

What man begins: before his eyes it fades away

He’d like to be a perfect man and executor

But what remains is escape…

But what remains is escape…

All the beauty of the world, the world he lives in

means nothing compared to his creation

He applies his own rules to everyone

who doesn’t step aside, has to fall

No stone remains unturned

No piece of earth unexplored

No live stays sacrosanct — No live stays sacrosanct

Nothing that couldn’t be changed

The future of his children, a light-hearted game

played under the pretence of progress

CARELESSNESS AS THE RESULT OF LOSS OF FEELINGS

CARELESS HE STRIDES TOWARDS DESTRUCTION

What man begins: before his eyes it fades away

He’d like to be a perfect man and executor

But what remains is escape…

But what remains is escape…