Here's a sad case, all my friends have let me down 
there's no sweet taste when your luck is leaving town 
I'll have to swallow it all 
There's no shame when you lose, when you waver and fall 

So all I've got is that simple routine 
and the moves that I make are like a ritual to me 
I had to find a way out 
So I swallowed my pride and I made a new start 

Can't you see the beauty of the ritual 
A quiet concentration on the minimal 
But is it pain or is it pleasure, you just don't know 
what to feel 
‘cause it's all in the ritual 

No more sweet taste, it's supposed to be bitter 
what would you say if your love was leaving town 
I can't accept what is real 
So I dream up a world that belongs just to me 

Can't you see the beauty of the ritual 
A quiet concentration on the minimal 
But is it pain or is it pleasure, I just don't know 
what to feel 
‘cause it's all in the ritual 

Never knew how lonely it could be 
(never thought that it could get so lonely) 
now I've lost it all. 
(I lost my fortune and my friends as well 
then it seemed to me there was one solution only) 
there was one solution only 
a tribute to the ritual