Prophetin [English translation]

How long can one bleed tears

When the blood freezes in one's veins?

How long can two minutes seem

When the unspeakable tragedy happens?

[Bridge:]

Not in my worst dreams did I think

Of freeing myself; where would I end up?

After all I had a roof over my head

And why should I still stay here now?

[Chorus:]

If the prophetess will not come to the mountain

The mountain will come to the prophetess1

For he knows what she's worth

He knows that she'll understand

I know who cannot sleep at night

I know who only suffers through the days

Many words can have sharp edges

Even more so when their speaker is lying

[Bridge + Chorus]

She understands that the mountain is our dreams

She takes care of them like her very child

She understands that the mountain is our wishes

And you can hear her when she sings of them

She understands that the mountain forms our fears

Wherefore she speaks to our spirit of courage

She understands that the mountain is our hope

Which never lets out of sight its goal

[Chorus]

1. A spin on a Turkish proverb "If the mountain does not come to you, you must come to the mountain", first recorded in English by Sir Francis Bacon in 1625 as "If the hill will not come to Mahomet [the prophet Mohammed], Mahomet will go to the hill."