Refrain:
How harsh was darkness on you
How death tried to overtake you
How torment and persecution
And suffering traumatized you
How harsh was darkness on you
You were wounded like Jesus
With nails and thorns
You and your children suffered
Banished and exiled
I wonder how did you stand
(Against denial and infidelity)2
It was a sound that echoed
Always in your ears
That enflames power in you
When the Lord said about you
(I dream to go far far away
I wish to break the iron chains
I dream with a world new new
Where my heart will be happy)2
Refrain:
(When I see a flying bird
I wish to be like him)2
(When I see a far-away cloud
I wish to be a gentle breathe)2
High above
To hear the whispering of Your voice
(I dream to go to my beloved Jesus
Behold, take that garment
For my heart is not in it
I do not own that garment
Or even claim it
You own it
You can take it back
Or take off if you will
Or just leave it alone
As for my heart I have sworn
That you will not have it
I do not own my heart
Nor will you ever do
It is owned by my God
Refrain:
O my God, deepest love is
Your love
O my God, I desire to see You
I desire to see You
In superior and glorious
beauty
In honor among the hosts of
Your heaven
Or see Your beauty in the Son
In whom everyone saw You
You are the fullness of the
mind and heart
(In this alien life, there is none
but You)2
Among people, I draw them to
(As a stranger I lived in this world
A guest like my fathers
A stranger in my ways
In houghts and desires)2
(As a stranger, I could not find
A hearer, to tell him my opinions)2
The people are puzzled by my
sympathy, not knowing my epidemic
(The people swim in pasture, with
uproar and noise
And isolate myself here, with my
meek and little heart)2
(As a stranger, I could not find a
(My tender heart has become Your home
Deep in my bosom is Your dwelling place)2
I have forsaken the world and its pleasures
And abandoned all so that I may live with You
I have no desire, nor passion, nor
Have I a thought but to follow You
And my father Jacob I know his secret
Now I know how he wrestled with You
(O kind-hearted, how sweet You are
It was not You who listened to the serpent
It was my mother, who sinned
and listened to its call
It was not You who plucked from the garden
It was my mother, who plucked
illicitly of its fruit
You are holy and pure, whereas
I am the one who went astray and was lost
You are high in heaven, whereas
I am the son of the earth, whose
origin is its dust
My friend, I do not know what I am
Nor do you know what you are here
You like me, are lost in this foreign
land
And all people are also like us
(We spend a time as guests
Then go when our day comes)2
(Our ancestors lived in early times
Then came after our fathers)2
I entered the universe naked
So I own nothing in it or riches
I shall go over naked without what the
Refrain:
Close the door and reason with Jesus
In the darkness of the night
Fill the night with prayers
(Struggling and tears)2
(O you who are troubled
And lost in deep thoughts
Asking people and complaining
Crying out where is the way)2
(Did you find the way
And kind heart, O poor one
Did people carry out
All your hardships)2
(My friend: no one will help
Not even a friend
[(Returning back to You
From much grief and sorrow)2
Leaving the perishing world
Save me O Lord Jesus]2
Refrain:
(O Jesus, the pure fountain
O sweet and warm bosom
Your love is sufficient for me
I will never go back again)2
[(Returning back after starvation
From the midst of a cruel world)2
Keep me from going back
And fill me up O Lord Jesus]2
[(You searched among mountains
And restored me from error)2