And now, the end is near;
And so I face the final curtain.
My friend, Ill say it clear,
Ill state my case, of which Im certain.
Ive lived a life thats full.
Ive traveled each and evry highway;
And more, much more than this,
I did it my way.
Regrets, Ive had a few;
But then again, too few to mention.
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption.
I planned each charted course;
Each careful step along the byway,
But more, much more than this,
I did it my way.
Yes, there were times, Im sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew.
But through it all, when there was doubt,
I ate it up and spit it out.
I faced it all and I stood tall;
And did it my way.
Ive loved, Ive laughed and cried.
Ive had my fill; my share of losing.
And now, as tears subside,
I find it all so amusing.
To think I did all that;
And may I say - not in a shy way,
No, oh no not me,
I did it my way.
For what is a man, what has he got?
If not himself, then he has not.
To say the things he truly feels;
And not the words of one who kneels.
The record shows I took the blows -
And did it my way!
Hän katseen kääntää taivaalle
Sotahuudon karjaisee
Hän laukkaa metsän laidalle
Vielä kerran taistelee...
Monta tuhatta miestä
Oli valmiina hyökkäykseen
Silti tappio koitti
Jättivät kentälle haavoittuneet
Tajuihinsa kun palasi
Hän joukosta ruumiiden
Joka suunnassa piiritti
Ankara vihollinen
Viereltään toverit, kaikki valitut, kaikonneet
Unohtaneet veljeyden, hänet yksin hyljänneet
chorus:
Kohti varmaa kuolemaa, pelotta hän ratsastaa
Kohti varmaa kuolemaa
Hän jatkaa aina vaan, varmaan kuolemaan
Antaudu ei milloinkaan, vaan syöksyy kuolemaan
Soturit vihollisen
Taivaanrannassa ratsastivat
Pakotiet oli suljettu
Koko metsän ne valtasivat
Löytyi miekka ja ratsu
Hän nousi satulaan
Vannoi viimeisen valan
Valmiina kostamaan
Viereltään toverit, kaikki olivat, kaikonneet
Unohtaneet veljeyden, hänet yksin hyljänneet
chorus:
Kohti varmaa kuolemaa, pelotta hän ratsastaa
Kohti varmaa kuolemaa
Hän jatkaa aina vaan, varmaan kuolemaan
Antaudu ei milloinkaan, vaan syöksyy kuolemaan
Varmaan kuolemaan, varmaan kuolemaan
Varmaan kuolemaan, varmaan kuolemaan
Varmaan kuolemaan, varmaan kuolemaan
Varmaan kuolemaan, varmaan kuolemaan!
chorus:
Kohti varmaa kuolemaa, pelotta hän ratsastaa
Kohti varmaa kuolemaa
Hän jatkaa aina vaan, varmaan kuolemaan
Antaudu ei milloinkaan, vaan syöksyy kuolemaan!
Silloin olin jossain, kaukana täältä
Seuranani ratsu uskollinen
Ympärilläni ei ollut muuta kuin jäätä
Satulassa kultaa kuninkaiden
Takanani tuolloin verinen virta
Sekä joki kyynelistä omaisten
Olin ollut soturi vuoksi miekan,
Vuoksi mammonan ja naisten
kertosäe:
Viimeinen tuoppi huulilleni nostakaa!
Ylvästäkää katseenne, en pelkää kuolemaa
Siis viimeinen tuoppi kaatakaa!
Kohti uutta seutua vaelsin halki
Jäisten arojen, karujen seutujen
Seuraavaa haastetta kirveelleni etsin
Kuolemaa halukkaille tarjoten
Määränpäätä nähnyt, en liioin tiennyt
Suuntanani kuiskaukset tuulten
Silloin en arvannut et joskus tunnen
Suudelman tuonelan huulten
kertosäe
Viimeinen tuoppi huuliltani nostakaa
Ylvästäkää katseenne, ei kukaan väistä kuolemaa
Siis viimeinen tuoppi nostakaa
Viimeistä kertaa, jumalat, pyydän,
Sieluni punnitkaa
Lying by the trees
All wrapped up in leaves
I lay you down to sleep
You're so lovely
Little hands so white and pale
Blue under your nails
I wanna show how much I care
Sleeping beauty
We'll let this be our hide-away
Our secret
I'll set you free though I must stay
'cause our love can't be shared
This will be your one
Last kiss goodbye
And I wish you - and I wish you
This will be your one
Last kiss goodbye
And I wish you, and I wish you well in hell
It's been years since we last met
Now it's fall and leaves are wet
I think you must have lost some weight
But you're still lovely
We'll let this be our hide-away
Our secret
I'll set you free though I must stay
'cause our love can't be shared
This will be your one
Last kiss goodbye
And I wish you - and I wish you
This will be your one
Last kiss goodbye
And I wish you, and I wish you well in hell
I know you will be waiting
Sleeping in your pelt
If I couldn't have you baby
No one ever will
'cause our love can't be shared
This will be your one
Last kiss goodbye
And I wish you - and I wish you
This will be your one
Last kiss goodbye
And I wish you, and I wish you well in hell
Just for spite every day every night you still wonder you wonder
From the ashes I rise by the roll of the dice you'll go under go under
You never realized I'm back here to stay like a fungus that grows on your side
You never realized I won't go away not tonight
I'll never leave you lonely I'll be there tryin' to grab a hold yeah
I'm not the nicest guy you know
You'll never leave me darling now hear my tender warning
I'm not the nicest guy you know aw
You'll see me again in the thunder and rain I come crawlin' I come crawlin'
I've got eyes everywhere from the shadows I stare at you darling my darling
You never realized I'm back here to stay like a fungus that grows on your side
You never realized I won't go away not tonight no no
I'll never leave you lonely I'll be there tryin' to grab a hold yeah
I'm not the nicest guy you know
You'll never leave me darling now hear my tender warning
I'm not the nicest guy you know aw ooh yeah hmm guitar
I'll never leave you lonely I'll be there tryin' to grab a hold yeah
I'm not the nicest guy you know
You'll never leave me darling now hear my tender warning
I'm not the nicest guy you know
Again the sky has fallen down on me
Once more a world has crumbled down and over me
And yet in some twisted way
I enjoy my misery
And in some strange way
I have grown together with my agony
I feel home in despair for I dwell in grief
and I feel home when the air's too thick to breathe
and I feel home anywhere human lives are going down the drain
For as long as I remember life has been hard
I guess they have "misery" written somewhere in my stars
For I have mourned for so damn longÂ…
that I've forgotten what it was for
Everything has gone so wrong
that I really couldn't think of anything more
I feel home in despair for I dwell in grief
and I feel home when the air's too thick to breathe
and I feel home anywhere human lives are flowing down the drain
I feel home in despair for I dwell in grief
and I feel home when the air's too thick to breathe
and I feel home anywhere the light of day is drowned in heavy rain
Yet I know the worst is still to come
So many times I have brought you down
that I have already lost all count
and I seem to be doing it again
No matter how hard I have tried
I have crumbled time after time
and kept failing in the end
Sometimes it feels it would be better for you all
If I ceased to exist or was never born at all
So many times I have let you down
shadowed the shine of our sun
and drowned you in tears and misery
that it is hard for me to see
how you can after all these years
still be standing by me
Sometimes it feels it would be better for us all
If I ceased to exist or was never born at all
Sometimes it feels it would be easier to fall
than to flutter in the air with these wings so weak and torn
The darkness comes out of her shellÂ…
Yet another cold night in Hell with all the pain
The dying light is losing its glow
And my last glimmer of hope now fades away
It is starting to rain again
I'm coming closer to my end with every breath
The creepy shadows are growing pale
And the rising glow brings along the sense of death
I can feel Her presence now
Dead Moon RisingÂ…
Bleeding red light over the sea
-I hope this time She came for me
-I hope this time She sets me free
My wounds are open wide
The freezing wind blows right inside and feels like ice
The eerie glow fires up the sky
And She takes away my sight with Her shine
I can feel Her all around
Dead Moon RisingÂ…
Bleeding dead light over the sea
-I hope this time She came for me
-I hope this time She sets me free
Dead Moon RisingÂ…
Bleeding dead light over the sea
-I hope this time She came for me
-I hope this time She sets me free
Yet another morning
that feels like this
Yet another life's bitter kiss
It has been like this forÂ… I don't know how long
I only know that at some point
it all went wrong
I don't remember much from last night
but still far more than I would like to
I'm floating downstream that damned river again
What can I do now except continue
and open a bottle once more
What can I do now except see this through
and float with the stream, off the shore
- see where the river will take me
When I needed you, you weren't thereÂ…
now I need booze like I need the air that I breathe
With each drink I'm drifting further away from your world
the further off I get the harder it will be to return
It has been like this forÂ… I don't know how long
I only know that at some point
it all went wrong
Floating downstream that damned river again
The river that's distilled from premium grain
What can I do now except continue
and open a bottle once more
What can I do now except see this through
and float with the stream, off the shore
- see where the river will take me
- see where the river will take me