Sopor Aeternus Lyrics
"No-One Is There"

Now and then I'm scared, when I seem to forget how
sounds become words or even sentences .
.. No, I don't speak anymore and what could I say,
since no-one is there and there is nothing to say ...

So, I prefer to lie in darkest silence alone .
.. listening to the lack of light,
or sound, or someone to talk to,
for something to share ...- but there is no hope and no-one is there.

No, no, no ...- not one living soul and there is nothing
(left) to say, in darkness I lie all alone by myself,
sleeping most of the time to endure the pain.

I am not breathing a word,
I haven't spoken for weeks and yet the mistress inside
me is (secretly) straining her ears.
But there is no-one, and it seems to me at times that
with every passing hour another word is leaving my mind ...

I am the mistress of loneliness,
my court is deserted but I do not care.
The presence of people is ugly and cold and something
I can neither watch nor bear.

So, I prefer to lie in darkness silence alone,
listening to the lack of light,
or sound, or someone to talk to,
for something to share ...- but there is no hope and no-one is there.

No, I don't speak anymore and what should I say,
since no- one is there and there is nothing to say?
All is oppressive, alles ist schwer,
there is no-one and NO-ONE IS THERE ...