Verzweiflung [English translation]

Boast, frothy waves,

And writhe around me!

Misfortune may bark loudly around me,

Infuriated be the gruesome sea!

Misfortune may bark loudly around me,

Infuriated be the gruesome sea!

Infuriated be the gruesome sea!

I laugh at the stormy weathers,

Despise the fury of the flood;

O, cliffs shall crush me!

For never it goes well.

O, cliffs shall crush me!

For never it goes well.

For never it goes well.

Not plaint I, and shall I now fail,

Wither in watery depth!

My vision shall never more cheer up,

To see the star of my life again.

My vision shall never more cheer up,

To see the star of my life again.

To see the star of my life again.

So wallow downhill with thunderstorms,

And rage, you storms at me,

So that cliffs burst on cliffs!

I am a lost man.

So that cliffs burst on cliffs!

I am a lost man.

I am a lost man.

So wallow downhill with thunderstorms,

And rage, you storms at me,

So that cliffs burst on cliffs!

I am a lost man.

So that cliffs burst on cliffs!

I am a lost man.

I am a lost man.