Stage 1 Scene 1 (cards Do Not Lie) Lyrics - Singles - Masters Hammer

Among the hills a winding way 

I am going to meet my education 

be it a patch of my gaps 

from happiness already turns red the face ! 

The way of knowledge is full of thorns 

how to separate grain from chaff ? 

A castle tower welcomes me from far 

with its copper battlement. 

Already a good piece of walk behind me 

behold, a wooden Gasthaus there, 

and the inscription says "ZUM SPIRITUS" 

- its very name so nicely sounds ! 

My luggage here being so heavy 

and full of books, 

please, take them up 

I want to sleep in the attic... 

And do quickly serve the table 

I ate in Prague for the last time 

and some sort of Spirits too, 

which would raise the humour ! 

Who is taking seat beside me ? 

Greeting me by my name ? 

Maybe a hundred years old woman 

- that makes me feeling shocked ! 

And suddenly I see cards spread out 

on a little table here 

in a room filled with smoke 

of pure hemp ! 

My supreme consternation 

about her knowing my past 

however, I want to know perfectly 

what will give the future to me ? 

(the fortune-teller:) 

"Here the king and next the knave." 

(Atrament:) 

"What does it mean ?" 

"A high born gentleman will lick your back." 

"And what comes next ?" 

"Ha, ha, if you order brandy, we hear in no time 

whether you shall have your head on the log, 

or a good fortune on your knees !" 

Old hag, I am fed up with your talks, 

I am an occultist ! 

Thought not seeing through the cards, 

but I know how to do with life: 

And in the bar a vermilion notice: 

ET ZUM SPIRITUS TUO 

I shall prefer to sing a duet 

with my own tumbler ! 

As a flash from the clean sky 

struck by the phantom of 

a beautiful gril 

in my eyes there sticks 

the glance of her eyes 

and those clear forms of her hips 

We spent in waking all the night 

and the bed empty in the morning 

when the little Table bestowed 

at the exorcising right enough !