Tears' Song

1. Dawn ends the night, but my suffering knows no end—it clings to the morning as it clung to the dark.

2. I have fought so long that I am too weary now to even hear the news of victory.

3. My love, know this: I no longer have the strength left to sulk. Let that much sink in.

4. I turn from side to side through the endless night. Even lying beside me, you cannot tell where my pain truly lives.

5. Perhaps a life with you was never written in the stars; so I wait for the pyre. Only, come when the time is right.

6. Because I am poor, I can see your refinement for what it is—you are even more destitute than I am.

7. Before I begin to sing, I must weep a little. If I weep while singing, everyone will know exactly which line of which song is breaking me.

8. To close one's eyes in perfect peace—I have never wanted such a thing. Peace like that belongs to the dead, not to the living.

9. Last love is better than first love. And death is better still than last love.

10. God, if you had not written her in his fate, why did you write only him in mine!