I see you selling flowers   In the Springtime of decay   I see you painting idols   While the Muses turn to grey   And on your bleak horizons   Above the bright domain   The buried soul of Europe   Alive beyond the breathing grave      I'll meet you here in Bavaria   In fear you'll burn forever   I'll meet you here in Bavaria   In dreams we'll live forever   This is how we see the world,   Shining, burning      See how the truth divides us   In the mercury of pain   See how the truth reminds us   Of the blindness that we face   To suffer for the love of life   Sweetness in your cruel embrace   Intimations of mortality   The crownless Court of Grace      On the steeples high   Where the swans still glide,   Imperium, Imperium   On the steeples high   Where the nights still shine,   Imperium, Imperium