Once more I'm here, young friends Lyrics

Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya

Ya, ya, ya, ya, da-boo-dee-da-boo-da

Da-da

Once more I hear young friends among your throng

Foggy days of partying now are gone

Your step-up circle welcomes me again

Your arms once more are stretched to greet your kin

You're all the same, but my heart's changed its tune

No longer does it beat just for you soon

I'm not the same

On paths unseen and deep

The days of carefree joy have fallen asleep

Forever gone and morning's fading light

Grows dim above my weary lonely night

Joy has forsaken my once cheerful soul

Forsaken by a jealous fate's control

I've lost my smile, my laughter, peace and ease

Replaced by silent sorrows, if you please

A mournful shroud now covers my young head

In vain you try to rouse me from my bed

With playful talk and heartfelt tender plea

It's over now, the joy can't set me free

The step of happiness is erased within

In vain you bring your light to ease my sin

The dreams of days gone by have turned to dust

The voice is mute, the strings have lost their trust

Before me sorrow is the only sigh

The world appalls, the daylight brings no light

I'll seek the woods where life has ceased to be

Where darkness reigns, I hate all gaiety

Its fleeting trace is frozen deep in me

Like fallen leaves, the roses of yesterday

Unblown beneath the moon's pale silvery ray

The days of joy have vanished, flown away

Involuntarily my tears now stray

And in the dawn of days I'm forced to say

On ship cast me in to dark decay

In silence I submit to destiny's sway

Abandoned me to horror and dismay

To deserts and to tears, I'll find my way