Eva [English translation]

You, so alone

May I be with you?

Will you tell me what it is you live for?

You creature of harmony

Far removed from blasphemy

Purity fills your existance

So much joy in you

Caressed and cajoled by me?

My skin so close to you

Chorus:

Tell me what your heart says

Eve

How curiosity torments you1

Eve

You, who loses herself in pleasure2

Eve

Red pain in your body, banished

Far away from Wonderland

Eve

There's more than you understand

There's more that you live for

Sorrow betrays your existence

The knowledge so near

The fruit so wonderful

Do it, and you'll be free

For what do you exist?

Look, how wonderful,

Taste it,3 and you'll be free

Chorus x2

1. See brightswan's comment below2. 'Vergehen' has three meanings which are apposite here: Eve feels pleasure so intensely it's as though she's dying, Eve 'dies' from immortality in the Garden, to mortal life and death out of it, because of knowledge of sexual pleasure, and Eve violates God's command in gaining knowledge of sexual pleasure. (Of course the idea that the expulsion from the Garden had anything to do with naughty sex is more a misogynistic gloss on the story than an actual part of the Bible.)3. Since there's no obvious masculine noun that serves as the antecedent to this pronoun, it could also mean "taste him."

• Artist:Unheilig
• Album:Das 2. Gebot (2003)