Osternacht [English translation]

Here, where a human being died a violent death,

we spend the Easter Eve every year.

We have here, where you took so many lives,

a small fire under the gallows tree ignited.

It's so bitterly cold, let's stir up the flames!

Our foreheads emblazoned with a black pentagram,

which we drew with soot.

We are lost to the world, can you feel it?

Hold me tight, brother, hold me tight!

Do you hear the voice that won't leave me at peace?

It pulls me more into the spell,

as the power of the Master himself can.

I have to follow him, the singing clear as bell.

Hold me back, brother, hold me back!

Here, where the bones lie under the noose.

You better not let me go,

this yearning becomes too great.

Only an angel's song can sound so sweet.

My brother, do not shake your head so seriously,

as if you thought I was out of my mind!

You whisper: „Friend, the sooner you learn the rule

- the mill tolerates no rival -,

the more likely she will survive it

and the sooner disappears the hope and deception,

that you give away your heart, see this:

You are now forgiven the good and the bad.“

Hold me tight, brother, hold me tight!

Do you hear the voice that won't leave me at peace?

It pulls me more into the spell,

as the power of the Master himself can.

I have to follow him, the singing clear as bell.

Hold me back, brother, hold me back!

Here, where the bones lie under the noose.

You better not let me go,

this yearning becomes too great.

Only an angel's song can sound so sweet.

Do you hear the trees, how they whisper, how they rush?

Damn wind, be quiet, otherwise I will not hear it!

I would exchange the black art anytime,

for the spell that her voice speaks.

Hold me tight, brother, hold me tight!

Do you hear the voice that won't leave me at peace?

It pulls me more into the spell,

as the power of the Master himself can.

I have to follow him, the singing clear as bell.

Hold me back, brother, hold me back!

Here, where the bones lie under the noose.

You better not let me go,

this yearning becomes too great.

Only an angel's song can sound so sweet.

• Artist:ASP
• Album:Zaubererbruder Der Krabat-Liederzyklus Live & Extended