You make me sad - listen | Am so weary

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by Else Lasker-Schüler (1869 - 1945)

Translation © by Bertram Kottmann

Du machst mich traurig ‑ hör'

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG FRE

Bin so müde.
Alle Nächte trag' ich dich auf dem Rücken
Auch deine Nacht, die du so schwer umträumst
Hast du mich lieb? Hast du mich lieb?
Ich blies dir arge Wolken von der Stirn und tat ihr blau.
Was tust du mir in meiner Todesstunde?

Text Authorship:

by Else Lasker-Schüler (1869 - 1945), "Du machst mich traurig ‑ hör'" [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

by Paul Hindemith (1895 - 1963), "Du machst mich traurig - hör'", op. 18 (Lieder mit Klavier) no. 6 (1922) [sung text checked 1 time]
by Ilana Schapira-Marinescu (b. 1935), "Du machst mich traurig – hör", 1967 [ voice and piano ], from Mein blaues Klavier. Vier Lieder für Stimme und Klavier, no. 2 [sung text not yet checked]
by Christian Immo Schneider (b. 1935), "Du machst mich traurig – hör", 1986/2005 [ mezzo-soprano and piano ], from 54 Lieder für Mezzosopran und Klavier, no. 14 [sung text not yet checked]
by Sybil Westendorp (1910 - 1999), "Du machst mich traurig – hör", 1977 [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]

Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

ENG English (Bertram Kottmann) , "You make me sad - listen", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
FRE French (Français) (Pierre Mathé) , "Tu m'as rendue triste -- arrête", copyright © 2010, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

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This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
Line count: 6
Word count: 46

You make me sad ‑ listen

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Am so weary.
All night long I carry you on my back.
Your night as well, you dream through so heavily.
Do you love me? Do you hold me dear?
Evil clouds I blew away from your brow and brightened it up.
What will you do to me in my hour of death?

Text Authorship:

Translation from German (Deutsch) to English copyright © 2010 by Bertram Kottmann, (re)printed on this website with kind permission. To reprint and distribute this author's work for concert programs, CD booklets, etc., you must ask the copyright-holder(s) directly for permission. If you receive no response, you must consider it a refusal.
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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Else Lasker-Schüler (1869 - 1945), "Du machst mich traurig ‑ hör'"
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This text was added to the website: 2010-05-10
Line count: 6
Word count: 53