Even if One Gains This World

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This world of palaces, thrones, and crowns

This community of enemies of mankind

[both lines x2]

This world of mores of thirst for wealth

Even if you gain this world, what of it?

[both lines x2]

Each and every body stricken, each and every soul thirsty

Confusion in the glances, despondency in the hearts

Is this a world or a "world of confusion"?

Even if you gain this world, what of it? [x2]

Here, man's existence is a plaything,

it is a settlement of worshipers of the dead.

Because over here, death is cheaper than life.

Even if you gain this world, what of it? [x2]

Youth becomes wicked and goes astray,

young bodies become a bazaar, embellished.

Here, love has been turned into a trade.

Even if you gain this world, what of it? [x2]

This world where man is nothing

Faithfulness is nothing, friendship is nothing

[both lines x2]

Where love's worth itself is nothing

Even if you gain this world, what of it? [x2]

Torch it, set this world on fire,

Torch, torch it, torch it!

Torch it, set this world on fire,

remove this world from my sight (in front of me)!

This world is yours only, you fix it!

Even if you gain this world, what of it? [x2]

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