Geh und heb dein Grab aus, mein Freund [English translation]

Go and dig out your grave, my friend!

You were never meant to win.

Go and dig your grave, my friend!

Never again you will fly as a raven.

Go.

Go!

Go...

Go and teach your spade!

It feels like lead, so heavy.

Who only betrayed you to him?

You thought, you knew more than he?

As the Master's apprentice among ravens

you were almost far enough.

Almost, so you have to dig now

because he beat you easily in the duel.

All mourn!

All are silent!

No one can help you anymore aund you are all alone.

Will the horror

never pass by?

With every cut of the spade, the fear also penetrates deeper into your heart.

Go and dig out your grave, my friend!

You were never meant to win.

Go and dig your grave, my friend!

Never again you will fly as a raven.

Soon, when it's time,

then everything is said,

except:

Go and dig your grave, my friend!

You have yourself the power predetermined

and you have gotten very far.

There is no prayer left for you

from the distant childhood.

Ah, see, the pit will soon be finished.

Can you control your shaking?

The Master is omnipresent,

and whoever defies him, can only lose!

Dread and silence

are heavier

on the aching shoulders than the sacks of flour.

Twelve were apprentices,

one the teacher.

A rustle sounds through the air. The Master laughs and gives out the order:

„Go and dig your grave, my friend!

You were never meant to win.

Go and dig your grave, my friend!

Never again you will fly as a raven.

Soon, when it's time,

then everything is said,

except:

Go and dig your grave, my friend!“

Don't you see the black cat wandering around?

Your gruesome work will soon be accomplished.

I am calling for you but you don't hear me anymore, friend.

There is nothing that makes it easier to bid farewell.

Was it not clear that the notch there on the mill wheel

points at you this year?

But until the water has washed away all the blood,

the raven crowd circles above the moor.

Who knows how often has all of this happened before?

And as it is for me next year:

Go and dig out your grave, my friend!

You were never meant to win.

Go and dig your grave, my friend!

Never again you will fly as a raven.

Soon, when it's time,

then everything is said,

except:

Go and dig your grave, my friend!

Go and dig your grave, my friend!

You were never meant to win.

Go and dig your grave, my friend!

Never again you will fly as a raven.

Your farewell is silent

because it's the Master's will

and so

go and fill your grave,

go and fill your grave, my friend!

• Artist:ASP