A quote from Tristan und Isolde (Wagner):

"Do I alone hear this melody,
which wonderfully and softly,
lamenting delight,
telling it all,
mildly reconciling
sounds out of him,
invades me,
swings upwards,
sweetly resonating
rings around me?
Sounding more clearly,
wafting around me —
Are these waves
of soft airs?
Are these billows
of delightful fragrances?
How they swell,
how they sough around me,
shall I breathe,
Shall I listen?
Shall I drink,
immerse?
Sweetly in fragrances
melt away?
In the billowing torrent,
in the resonating sound,
in the wafting Universe of the World-Breath —
drown,
be engulfed —
unconscious —
supreme delight!”

Once a valiant person, I have fallen into despair.
Once a shining light, I have become a lifeless shell.
Tortured by liars and scorned past what’s fair,
Each day spent breathing is a day spent in hell.

Why do I try and still have to lie?
Why do I try when they let me suffer?
Why do I try and still have to lie?
Why do I try when they make me hate myself?

To this very day, I stand waiting for freedom.
But I’ve become trapped in an endless circle of sadness.
Nobody cares to free me, so I must endure or succumb,
and hope that one day I will transfigure into the night.

Do I alone hear this melody?
Is it calling to me from the planet above?
Am I the only one who feels it?
The thing that will become the destroyer of worlds?
I know that we’re alone in the universe,
and I know that our deaths will be quick.
Do I alone hear this melody?
Is this my key to being freed?

Why do I try and still have to lie?
Why do I try when they let me suffer?
Why do I try and still have to lie?
Why do I try when they make me hate myself?

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