What is so bitter in your life your dispraisers You superfluous, you desolaters? You have devaluated life after all And you long so for d**h All life shall pa** by they say Decease from the vale of tears Ascend into redemption Life is only suffering they say Hardly are they born, when they begin to die And long for doctrines Of la**itude and renunciation What is their gospel? The contempt for life Preachers of d**h Paradise they will not find Like a spark they will extinguish In a sea of darkness
The spirit leaves the flesh forever Don't the ma**es have the ears for it? To eagerly absorb the preaching of d**h? To despise and hate this life? Doesn't the struggle tire them? Let them have their paradise? Let them attend to ending? That they extinguish their flame And cleansed the earth remains Let the superfluous be drawn away from life Drawn away by eternal life Shall their d**h wish come true Let them dissolve What is their gospel? The renunciation of life Dispraisers of life they are