So It Goes - Tamino

I crowned the same old passing of time

Gave the golden sceptre though it was never really mine

He made the days all pass me by

In such idyllic swiftness, he didn’t even try

And so it goes, the stillness covers my ears

Tenderly, until all sound disappears

Now it shows, while wind is swinging the trees

Vigorously

Well, it has stopped to move me

I praised the same old spending of time

Slept on the whitest beaches in the calmest of nights

They held me chained and captive so I

Could never join the sea in its ever changing tides

If I’m to let it in

It might just stay forever

If I’m to welcome him

We might just stay together

The crown remains, it’s always been mine

I ought to wear it better, I ought to know it now

And so it goes, the stillness covers my ears

Tenderly, until all sound disappears

Now it shows, while wind is swinging the trees

Vigorously

Well, it has stopped to move me