Though lips are sealed | Though lips are sealed, violins whisper

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by Viktor Hirschfeld (1858 - 1940), as Victor Léon and by Leo Stein (1862 - 1920)

Translation © by Linda Godry

Lippen schweigen

Language: German (Deutsch)

Our translations: ENG

Lippen schweigen, 's flüstern Geigen:
Hab' mich lieb!
All' die Schritte sagen bitte,
hab' mich lieb!
Jeder Druck der Hände deutlich mir's beschrieb,
er sagt klar: 's ist wahr, 's ist wahr,
du hast mich lieb!

Bei jedem Walzerschritt
Tanzt auch die Seele mit,
da hüpft das Herzchen klein,
es klopft und pocht:
Sei mein! Sei mein!
Und der Mund er spricht kein Wort,
doch tönt es fort und immerfort:
ich hab' dich ja so lieb,
ich hab' dich lieb!
Jeder Druck der Hände deutlich mir's beschrieb,
er sagt klar: 's ist wahr, 's ist wahr,
du hast mich lieb!

Text Authorship:

by Viktor Hirschfeld (1858 - 1940), as Victor Léon [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
by Leo Stein (1862 - 1920) [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 Franz Lehár (1870 - 1948), "Lippen schweigen", 1870, first performed 1905, from opera Die lustige Witwe [sung text checked 1 time]

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

ENG English [singable] (Linda Godry) , "Though lips are sealed", copyright © 2008, (re)printed on this website with kind permission

Researcher for this page: Linda Godry

This text was added to the website: 2008-01-19
Line count: 19
Word count: 100

Though lips are sealed

Language: English after the German (Deutsch)

Though lips are sealed, violins whisper:
Care for me!
All our dance steps do keep asking,
Care for me!
Our fingers clasping feel so right to me
clearly telling me: it's true,
you care for me!

With ev'ry waltzing step
Our souls do fall in step,
Even our foolish hearts,
They pound and sound:
Be mine, be mine!
And though the mouth, it still is sealed,
And yet it couldn't be more plain:
I care so much for you.
I care for you!
Our fingers clasping feel so right to me
clearly telling me: it's true,
you care for me!

Text Authorship:

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Based on:

a text in German (Deutsch) by Viktor Hirschfeld (1858 - 1940), as Victor Léon and by Leo Stein (1862 - 1920)
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This text was added to the website: 2008-04-01
Line count: 19
Word count: 100