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    Das Würfelspiel → English translation

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The Dice Game

My train home doesn’t leave until nine,
in the waiting room sat all alone an older man with the same destination,
he invited me to a dice game,
asked me to a dice game.
 
I told him: I never play.
Outside snow fell, a D-train screamed,
to that he said: it concerns much,
it is about you at this dice game,
Goes around you at this dice game.
 
No one realizes/suspects it, as the die falls,
nothing happens by chance in the World.
 
What I even threw, he had more,
me three times six, and him nineteen,
was like in a trance from the grip of the game,
and have missed the train home,
have during the game missed the train home.
 
No one realizes/suspects it, as the die falls,
nothing happens by chance in the World.
 
Then there’s an alarm – signal on red,
the train derailed – ten people dead.
The man was gone – the veil fell,
in my hand I held the dice game,
in the hand I held the dice game.
I understand, why the die fell.
I understand, why the die fell.
 
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Das Würfelspiel

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