[Part 1] [The fingerpicked guitar opens with a soft ostinato pattern] [The guitar pattern keeps circling like a memory that won't fade.] Our feelings were mutual, We bound ourselves together. And longing sealed our love. It's torture to recall how he kissed me, when he meant to desert me, that inventor of confusion, the one who woke my love. [Part 2] Desire gripped me. I don't deny it. He's still on my mind O beloved stars and lady Night, companions in my desire, take me even now to him, Love leads me there, a willing captive. Desire won't let me go. [Part 3 / Chorus] My guide is the potent torch that's ablaze in my soul. But this is what hurts me, this is what aches: that this cheater of hearts, so proud before, denied my love was ever real, and now can't bear one careless word. [Part 4] I'm going to go mad; I'm jealous, I'm burning up at being deserted. So throw me the garlands, which, in my loneliness, I'll press to my skin. Beloved, don't lock me out and send me off. Take me. I ask for nothing more. [Bridge] [The opening guitar ostinato returns, unchanged.] Loving to distraction is a heavy task: you have to be jealous, endure, keep waiting. And if you devote yourself to just one, you will just go crazy, Lonely desire drives you mad. You should know I have a stubborn temper when I get in a fight. [Outro] I go mad when I recall that I will sleep alone, while you lie beside another. If we're angry at each other, we'll have to make up right now. Isn't this why we have friends, to decide who's in the wrong?
