1. The estrangement of my beloved persists
Never absent, never gone

2. If only estrangement could live
Then those in love would not die

3. Oh what mercy in the breaking of the eyelid
That knows no waking, only sinking

4. Wine flowed till he was ruined
And wine is most difficult indeed

5. Oh branch that does not sway my way
Though swaying becomes a bough

6. You've made me sick like a soft breeze
Why not bend when I blow?