How fast this dance of life does go!

Our heart beats race against our breaths

Who set the beat, this mad tempo?

Like autumn winds we madly blow

Through time and life until our deaths.

How fast this dance of life does go!

We dream, we hope, we tell, we show!

We dance, we flail, out of our depths

Who set the beat, this mad tempo?

We waltz, at double time we go!

Stepped in as deep as did Macbeth,

How fast this dance of life does go!

Through smiles and tears we do not know

The meaning of this shibboleth 

Who set the beat, this mad tempo!

We seize the day, our hearts beat so

Much faster as we near our death

This dance of life so fast it goes

We get the beat, its mad tempo.