Defendant, please rise!
In a while my judges will
Read my punishment aloud,
But now I don't care anymore.
Defendant, please rise!
I hear, from an ever increasing distance
Words that modify my destiny
But these don't affect me.
Those strangers dressed in black
I still seem to hear them
No, none of them could understand
How one could kill for love
Very soon those strangers will
Play my life heads or tails.
Whatever they may say or do
I shall not add a single word.
Defendant, please rise!
And slowly I sit up
Lonely in the midst of these people
Who are more impatient than myself
To know whether my life is at stake
Or else if
My fate will be different
If I'm forced to live anew.
Those strangers dressed in black
I still seem to hear them
No, none of them could understand
How one could kill for love
From now on nothing matters
In this world without my love,
And only remains a long silence
Filled with tears and regrets.
And yet I confess
I am willing to thank
All those who will convict me
If I am doomed to death.
At the gates of eternity
I'll be able to meet
The one I love for ever
The one who waits for me, I know
I know it, I know it.