Текст песни: The Great Conversation + перевод

«Guten Abend, Herr Beethoven»

With these words I’ve interwoven inspiration from moonlight

Since you parted much has changed

But your melodies remain like flamingos in full flight

Please forgive me and be assured

I’m only using all your chords to illustrate that nothing’s ever new

But it seems these days there’s very little left

That people have to say as they pay for emperor’s new clothes

But I refuse to take my hat off to an era near extinction

Without question or complaint

The dialog is growing weak

Some forgetting how to speak or stand up and show restraint

They’re all sick with common sense, riddled thick with complacence

Where there’s nothing left to push against

So dear Ludwig, that is why I choose the great gig in the sky

Where there are greater minds beyond mine

And I’ll meet them all, yes, I’ll meet you all

In the great conversation, without time, without reason

I’ll meet you all, yes, I’ll meet you all

In the great conversation where time has no place, no, no

Is it me or has humanity turned slave

To the convenience of this so called Techno Age?

I speak to you, Ludwig because you represent

A time so opposite when music filled the page

For example, this song here may be too much to please the ear

Because it’s wordy and demonstrative

But my might is not to entertain the plight of human thought

Though some may think I ought to

Well, I’ll meet them all, yes, I’ll meet you all

In the great conversation, without time, without reason

I’ll meet you all, yes, I’ll meet you all

In the great conversation where time has no place, no, no

Dare I say, as a landscape fades to gray

That a sword of Damocles hangs heavy overhead

Of all our voices great

Well, I’ll meet them all, yes, I’ll meet you all

In the great conversation without time, without reason

I’ll meet you all in the great conversation

Where time has no place, no, no

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