Translated by A. Z. Foreman - Captive lyrics

I want you and I know I'll never hold you To satisfy my heart in an embrace. You are the clear bright heavens, I a captive Bird in a cage that keeps me in my place. My face behind these cold dark bars looks out At yours, eyes full of wonderment and rue. I think about a hand outstretched toward me, That I might rise on instant wings toward you. I think about one moment of neglect When from this stifling sullen jail I'd glide, Laugh in the face of him who jailed me, leaving This life to seek a new one at your side. I think such thoughts, but know I'll never be Able to flee this cage before I die. For even if my keeper wished me gone, I've not enough strength left in me to fly. Across the bars I see each sunlit morning My child's eyes smile at mine in gentle glee, And when I lift my voice in joyous song His lips come offering up a kiss to me. Sweet heavens, even if one day I rose And from this smothering prison cell struck free, What would I say to my boy's tearsoaked eyes? "I was a bird held captive. Let me be." I am a candle that illuminates Cold ruins with the burning in my breast. If I should choose to go for dark and silence It would be desolation for my nest.