For Elise - Momus

They say that time moves fast

And life is short, but art is long

And so to make it last

I’ll put my love

Into a song

And if it wasn’t for Elise

I don’t know where I would be

They say, they say, they say

That he who hesitates is lost

Well so am I

The only thing that lasts

Is art, our bloody bodies

Bloody die

And if it wasn’t for Elise

I don’t know where I would be

They say, they say, they say you don’t know what you’ve got

'Til what you’ve got is gone

I say I say that nothing’s lost

If it’s entrusted to a song

For you, my Elise

I’m composing lovely music

You and I, sad to say

Are doomed to fade and to die

You who come later

Know I was happy loving her

You who have conquered death

Bully for you!

Now fuck off!

Fuck off!