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Heinrich Heine A woman They loved each other with a deep love, She was a tramp and he was a thief. While he was playing his naughty craft, She just lay on the bed and laughed. The days went by in pleasure and joy, At night in the sheets she hugged her boy. When they dragged him off to jail at last, She just stood at the window and laughed. He wrote to her saying: “Ah come to me, I long for you, so badly, you see, I’m weeping: I’m fading fast“ She shook her sweet head and laughed. At six in the morning they hung him high, At seven they buried him under the sky, But as eight o’clock went past, She drank red wine and laughed. I do not believe in heaven I don’t believe in Heaven, Whose peace the preacher cites: I only trust your eyes now, They’re my heavenly lights. I don’t believe in God above, Who gets the preacher’s nod: I only trust your heart now, And have no other God. I don’t believe in Devils, In hell or hell’s black craft: I only trust your eyes now, And your devil’s heart. They loved each other They loved each other, but neither Would admit to the other they could: As enemies, they saw each other, And almost died of their love. In the end they parted and only Saw each other sometimes in dreams: It was long ago they had died, But they scarcely knew it, it seems. I can’t forget I had you, I can’t forget I had you, Dear woman, sweet to hug, That I once possessed you, Your body and your soul. I still want your body, That body young and true, They can bury your soul, love, I’ve soul enough for two. I’ll cut my soul in pieces, And breathe half into you, And hug you: we must be, yes, One soul and one body too.

A woman

They loved each other with a deep love,
She was a tramp and he was a thief.
While he was playing his naughty craft,
She just lay on the bed and laughed.
The days went by in pleasure and joy,
At night in the sheets she hugged her boy.
When they dragged him off to jail at last,
She just stood at the window and laughed.
He wrote to her saying: “Ah come to me,
I long for you, so badly, you see,
I’m weeping: I’m fading fast“
She shook her sweet head and laughed.
At six in the morning they hung him high,
At seven they buried him under the sky,
But as eight o’clock went past,
She drank red wine and laughed.

I do not believe in heaven

I don’t believe in Heaven,
Whose peace the preacher cites:
I only trust your eyes now,
They’re my heavenly lights.
I don’t believe in God above,
Who gets the preacher’s nod:
I only trust your heart now,
And have no other God.
I don’t believe in Devils,
In hell or hell’s black craft:
I only trust your eyes now,
And your devil’s heart.

They loved each other

They loved each other, but neither
Would admit to the other they could:
As enemies, they saw each other,
And almost died of their love.
In the end they parted and only
Saw each other sometimes in dreams:
It was long ago they had died,
But they scarcely knew it, it seems.

I can’t forget I had you,

I can’t forget I had you,
Dear woman, sweet to hug,
That I once possessed you,
Your body and your soul.
I still want your body,
That body young and true,
They can bury your soul, love,
I’ve soul enough for two.
I’ll cut my soul in pieces,
And breathe half into you,
And hug you: we must be, yes,
One soul and one body too.