[Chorus]
Oh you, the big old world
Are you full of sorrow?
Tell me, just tell me you mortal world
Are you overtroubled?
Oh you, the big old world
Are you full of sorrow?
Tell me, just tell me you mortal world
Are you overtroubled?

[Verse 1]
World is an inn in an inn
Soul lives it in its lifetime
It goes by just like a dream
Mankind is in deep sorrow
He cries with or without a trouble in the world
He cries with or without a trouble in the world

[Chorus]
Oh you, the big old world
Are you full of sorrow?
Tell me, just tell me you mortal world
Are you overtroubled?
Oh you, the big old world
Are you full of sorrow?
Tell me, just tell me you mortal world
Are you overtroubled?
[Verse 2]
World wheels, it's a mill
Man is just a life in it
Today he comes, tomorrow he leaves
It's an inn, guests come and go
Both troubled ones and untroubled ones cry in the world
Both troubled ones and untroubled ones cry in the world

[Instrumental Bridge]

[Verse 3]
World is an inn in an inn
Soul lives it in its lifetime
It goes by just like a dream
Mankind is in deep sorrow
He cries with or without a trouble in the world
He cries with or without a trouble in the world

[Chorus]
Oh you, the big old world
Are you full of sorrow?
Tell me, just tell me you mortal world
Are you overtroubled?