Die Schöne und das Biest English translation
von Alan Menken

Time writes fairy tales,
always true,
just barely known,
then turned to,
unexpectedly clear.

Change only in pairs,
before it becomes clear,
both were so anxious,
both without compulsion,
Beauty and the Beast.


Eternal like time,
eternal and ready,
eternally familiar,
eternally imposing,
as the sun rises.

Time writes fairy tales,
it is an old song,
bittersweetly confused,
realise that you are wrong,
and sometimes forgive.

Like the light of the sun′
pours out radiantly.
Fairy tales are written by time
in the poet's dress,
Beauty and the Beast.
Fairy tales write time
in the poet's dress,
Beauty and the Beast.