Nichts, nichts, gar nichts (Nothing, Nothing, Nothing at all)
Elisabeth
I wish I were like you,
A straightjacket placed in a corset.
One constricts only your body,
One shackles my soul.
I have struggled and defied all and what have I attained?
Nothing, nothing, nothing at all.
Then the only explanation was the madness
And the only escape was the collapse.
The abyss tempted me.
I want to let myself fall.
Why do I shudder before the leap?
If I were not damned to be Elisabeth,
if I were Titania.
I would laugh when they say, “She is crazy”.
I stand on the rope and the fear makes me sick,
Then I look below and I see
Nothing, nothing, nothing at all.
I grope further and with a searching step am always
afraid of nothing, nothing, nothing at all.
Probably only the madness makes one free.
Surely the madness stained my courage.
So I act strong and do what I do, otherwise
this life was nothing more than deception, error, fraud.
Other than nothing, nothing, nothing at all.