1. You are dear, my brother, in a crisis
And only wealth can relieve your distress

2. In money, in it alone lies your salvation
You must have it today or tomorrow at least

3. Yes without money there is no life for us
And how, from where can it come, tell us

4. From what we have been discussing for an hour
From the youth, from the death of the vigor of youth

5. And what can we do to catch it
We must have a trap

6. Listen, my dear brother, you are a family
Of which nothing remains but a trace

7. Your palace from early times lies in ruins
Where spiders have woven and built

8. You have lived here and there
Like an owl, every two rooms in space

9. You have filled it with servants, their jaws
Circle around bread like a mill

10. Look how the palaces have become
Nothing remains of a lobby or hall

11. The people have concealed themselves behind their shade
If you ask the doorman, he only says no