Текст песни: Sweetheart, My Dream Is Not Over + перевод

Love, I dreamed that you lived in a lonely place

And we were to marry that spring

Well, I walked through your house finding nar' a trace

Of friendliness there, not a thing

Then a bird sang out from an empty room

«Pretty girl, turn and run, do not stay

The man who lives here will cut you in two

And laugh as your blood drains away»

Ashes on daffodils

Ashes on leaves

Ashes on innocent clover

«Your nightmare’s done dear, go to sleep…»

But sweetheart my dream is not over

I met an old woman beneath the stair

She swore faith that you’d do me ill

She bid me to hide in her black pot there

And warned that I’d better keep still

Oh, you came in then, with a maiden, fair

And you killed her with barely a snap

Then chopped her in pieces, they flew everywhere

Her ring finger fell in my lap

Now I know dreams are fleeting, just melting light

Even now I forget what I’ve said

You are weary from working late every night

You can barely lift up your tired head

But I woke in screams, in need of your arms

How can you just wave that away?

And what of this ring squeezed tight in my palm

Found under our bed yesterday?

(Based on The Robber Bridegroom — Brother’s Grimm)

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