We told our tales as we sat under mornin's sleepy sky ( ) (2x) With all the colours of the sunrise shining in our eyes ( ) (2x) One, then another with a story of yesterday's lives ( ) (2x) or of a lover who had gone in a moment of strife No thought of sleep ever dwells upon the wise man's mind ( ) (2x) Some task or audience stealing every moment of his time ( ) (2x) Thus we have learned to live while mortal man lies waiting to die ( ) (2x) How can we do what must be done in just one short life? And if you ask, then you should know, if you still doubt you should be told, it was not we that made it so, it was by those who went before... ( ) (2x) And there you sit tomorrow's child, so full of love so full of life, but you must rise to meet the day, lest you become another tale, and there you sit tomorrow's