Alone in the silence, how my spirit does ache.

It’s another cantata to which I belong.

My soul, it does yearn; and my heart it does break,

For you were my music; your name was the song!

How long I had waited, I can ne’re tell

No longer to dream by myself as before.

Now love is an echo that I know so well

And quiet descends like a shadow once more.

I wander alone through this dark misty land

And fight the despair of a heart rent in two

Watching the castles I made in the sand

Dissolve in the tides once I had lost you.

What spell did you cast that I loved you so much

Although at the ending the magic went wrong?

My soul played your music, my body your touch

Now my heart cannot sing, your name was the song.