1. My youth is lost in nights gone by
Leaving me with my lonely sigh

2. Abandoning me so alone
Speeding from me, leaving me to groan

3. Afflicting me with harm untold
Beyond what I thought could unfold

4. Granting me no time to see
My carefree youthful reverie

5. No joy left in tales once told
No pleasure found in drinks of old

6. No happy life left to behold
With a fickle girl, now stern and cold

7. Oh bird, you lived happily before
In a nest safe from strife and war

8. But nights betrayed you more and more
Destroying your home to the core

9. Why still long for your ravaged nest?
Abandon it, leave it to rest

10. Join your flock, away you must fly
From loneliness, sadness and sigh

11. Love scattered, tempting you to stay
Is but a trap laid in your way