1. I'm amazed that the keeper of hell sleeps
While the seeker of paradise keeps vigil

2. I'm amazed that one longs for paradise
Which God has promised to those who seek it

3. We are lost in the dark love of this life
While the righteous shine like its stars

4. One who finds the world too confining
Is constrained by his own ambitions

5. One who accepts what comes to pass
Sees the earth bow down before him

6. A man, as long as he lives, will always
Have needs he strives to satisfy

7. How strange is this world, formed as it is
Praised by the truthful, blamed by its critics