By a wiser man he was told

Time is your enemy as you get old

Now faced with his mortality

He thought: "I'll live my life intensely!"

I'll be no man of lesser will

Top every mountain, cross every hill

I'll live ten days to your one

And will not rest 'til all prices won

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Vergiß niemals, Du wirst alt mein Kind

To seize all time is my secret

I'll posess what you'll never get

I will do everything, nothing's too much

Every good looking thing I will touch

All world wonders I will see

Only sleep five hours … that's the key

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He worked like hell everyday

Said: "When I die I'll sleep anway!"

Died in his prime, acted in haste

The beauty of life he didn't taste

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Vergiß niemals, Du wirst alt mein Kind