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I have put out so many fires in my eyes

And so many stars have I put out in my desperate soul.

Don't curse my life as you leave – it's just a memory now,

My life will pass and fade away, but my song will live on.

My life will pass and fade away like a fire in a swamp,

Inconsolable and dull, without hope, without aim.

In my songs no one recognizes me, you know,

As if it were another singing the blue longing of my soul.

Forever mute and estranged, I have wandered in silence.

No one, no one knows who I am, what my life is about.

All they know is in my life I have written a few songs,

As I know that you exist, as I know that you are loved.

I have sung to your soul, to your luminous smile,

To the sacred sadness of your eyes and your face.

My life abandoned in infinity, I have sung the profound love

And the longing of my arms that could never reach you.

Oh, sister, my foggy evening is coming closer,

How can I stop my longing soul from weeping?

How, how can I accept the drained cup of my fate,

So that my hands do not shake, so that my days forgive me?

And what if suddenly I start doubting myself,

And my sacred longing for you begins to feel like a lie?

Whatever happens, sister, don't curse, when we part,

The pitiable longing of my arms that could never reach you.