1. Reforming your heart gives me life, so revive me
And despairing of you leads me to withdrawal

2. How much this alienation, when my only crime toward you
Is my love, so pardon the repentant sinner

3. Your love made me miss my aim, and I thought
That love from you would draw me nearer, yet it distanced me

4. You were deceived into thinking I cannot
Make my heart obedient when I command it to abandon me

5. I do not deny its overflowing passion
But it warns me against a love that disgraces me