ברית עולם [Brit Olam] [English translation]

In an instant we

Join as one body,

Your hand you gave to me

To hold in mine eternally.

You’re my guide

When I fear inside,

So I cannot hide

How tonight I tremble.

Day, day and night, without fail

We travail our one

Uncharted trail.

Day, day and night, nothing else –

As one or apart –

Faithful to you, to myself.

Tonight, I love you sadly, and together we’ll yearn,

Tonight, I love you madly, and our passion will burn,

‘Til we learn, True concern, Always hoping, To return.

By and by,

Patiently we’ll spy,

Hints of you and I,

And perhaps we’ll learn to prize

Compromise

To see through each’s eyes

‘Til all that survives

Is the love between us.

Day, day and night, without fail

We travail our one

Uncharted trail.

Day, day and night, nothing else –

As one or apart –

Faithful to you, to myself.

Tonight, I love you sadly, and together we’ll yearn,

Tonight, I love you madly, and our passion will burn,

‘Til we learn, True concern, Always hoping, To return.

Time has come,

Soon we’ll see the sun,

And I’m feeling drunk…

All I ask is that you must

Guard this trust,

Until days are done,

Until we succumb

And the final beat has drummed.