"Kurwenal" "Tell me, Kurwenal Just listen, friend" "Isn't he awake yet?" "If he were to wake" "It would only be to go away forever" "Unless the woman who can heal him gets here first" "She's the only one who can help us now" "Have you seen nothing yet?" "Not even a ship on the sea?" "You would have heard another tune then" "One as cheerful as I can play" "Now tell me honestly, old friend" "What troubles our master?" "Don't ask questions" "You will never understand" "Keep a keen watch" "And when you see a ship just play cheerfully and loud" "The sea is empty and deserted" "That old tune" "Why does it wake me?" "Where am I?" "Oh, that voice, his voice" "Tristan, my master" "My hero, my Tristan" " Who is calling me?" " At last, at last life" "Life, sweet life is restored to my Tristan" "Kurwenal, you" "Where was I?" "Where am I?" "Where are you?" "Safe and free, in peace" "In Kareol, master" "Don't you recognize the castle of your ancestors?" " My ancestors?" " Just look around you" "What was it I heard?" "You heard once more the shepherd's tune" "Up the hill he's tending your flocks" "My flocks?" "That's what I said, sir" "Yours is the house the court and castle" "The people, true to their master" "As best they could they have kept the house and yard" "That long ago my hero bequeathed as heritage to his serfs and vassals" "When he left all behind to go to a foreign land" "To what land?" "Why, to Cornwall" "Where bold and blithe all glory, fortune and honor" "Tristan, my hero, nobly commanded" "Am I in Cornwall?" "Why, no, in Kareol" "How did I get here?" "Well, now How did you come?" "You didn't ride on horseback A small ship brought you here" "But I carried you to the ship on my shoulders" "They are broad" "They carried you to the beach" "Now you're at home" "At home in your country" "In your own, your native country" "With the pleasures of your own fields" "In the light of the old sun" "Where from death and your wounds" "You will be healed" "Do you think so?" "I know otherwise" "But I cannot explain it to you" "Where I awoke" "I did not stay" "But where I stayed" "I cannot explain" "I saw no sun" "Neither land nor people" "Yet what I saw" "I can't say" "I was where I have always been" "Where I have always been going" "The spacious realm" "Of world's night" "Only one thing we know there" "Divine, eternal" "Total oblivion" "How did my knowledge of it disappear?" "A reminder of longing shall I call it?" "It brought me back to the light of day" "What alone remained in me" "Was an ardent, burning love" "Away from the terrible wonder of death" "It drove me to look on the light" "Which bright, golden and deceptive" "Still shines on you, Isolde" "Isolde is still in the realms of the sun" "Isolde is still in the glare of day" "What longing What anxiety" "What yearning to see her" "I have already heard behind me the sound" "As death's door slammed closed" "Now it stands wide open again" "The sun's rays forced it open" "With eyes wide open" "I must break from the night" "To seek her" "To see her, to find her" "Only with her to pass away and to be no more" "Will be granted to Tristan" "Alas, now it grows in me pale and fearful" "The day's wild passion" "Harsh and deceitful its glare rouses my mind" "To deception and madness" "Accursed day, with your brightness" "Will you watch over my pain forever?" "Will this light forever burn" "Which even at night keeps me from her?" "Isolde, sweet beloved" "When finally When, oh, when?" "When will you put out the flame" "And thereby tell me I will be happy?" "When will the light go out?" "When will night come to the house?" "Once I defied her out of loyalty to you" "But now, like you I can only long for her" "Believe what I say" "You will see her here today" "That comfort I can give you" "If only she is still living" "The light has not yet gone out" "It is not yet night in the house" "Isolde lives and watches" "She has called to me out of the night" "If she is alive then let hope smile upon you" "Though Kurwenal may seem simple to you" "Today you will not scold him" "You lay as if dead since the day the accursed Melot dealt you a wound" "How could that wound be healed?" "Foolish though I am" "It seemed to me that she who once healed Morold's blows for you" "Would easily heal the hurt caused by Melot's sword" "I soon found the best doctor" "I have sent messages to Cornwall" "A loyal man is bringing Isolde here across the sea" "Isolde is coming" "Isolde is near" "What loyalty" "Dear, noble loyalty" "My Kurwenal, beloved friend Unfailingly true" "How can Tristan thank you?" "My shield, my guard in battle and combat" "Always ready beside me in joy and sorrow" "Whoever I hate you hate as well" "Whoever I love you love as well" "When I truly served good King Mark" "You were truer than gold to him" "When I had to betray my noble lord" "How gladly you too betrayed him" "Never your own man" "Mine alone" "You suffer with me when I suffer" "Yet what I suffer" "You cannot suffer" "This fearful longing that sears me" "This ravaging burning that consumes me" "If I could describe it and if you could experience it" "You would not linger here" "You would have to rush to the lookout" "Straining with all your senses up there" "Peering and gazing in that direction" "Where her sails are billowing" "Where coming on the wind to find me" "Fired by love's impulse" "Isolde is sailing towards me" "The ship comes closer and closer hurrying bravely" "The flag is waving and fluttering at the mast" "The ship!" "The ship!" "It's gliding past the reef" "Don't you see it?" "Kurwenal, can't you see it?" "No ship is in sight yet" "Is that how I'm to understand you" "You old sad tune" "With your mournful sound?" "Once through the evening air" "You carried fear" "When a child learned of his father's death" "Through the gray of morning it came ever more fearful" "As the son learned of his mother's fate" "He begot me and died" "She, dying, gave birth to me" "The old tune's fearful longing" "Must have called out to them as well" "It asked me once" "And asks me again now" "For what fate was I destined" "That I was born so?" "For what fate?" "The old tune tells me again" "Longing" "And death" "No, no" "That is not it" "Longing" "To continue longing even in death" "Rather than to die of longing" "That which never dies" "Now longingly calls for death's peace" "To the faraway healer" "When I lay dying in the boat, speechless" "With the wound's poison close to my heart" "The melody cried out in longing lament" "The wind blew the sails toward Ireland's child" "The wound that she healed and closed" "She tore apart again with the sword" "But then she let the sword drop" "She gave me the poison to drink" "But when I hoped to be completely healed" "The most hurtful spell was cast" "That I should never die" "But should be left in eternal torment" "The potion That terrible potion" "How madly it surged from my heart to my brain" "Now no cure not even sweet death" "Can ever free me from the agony of longing" "Nowhere can I find rest" "Night throws me back to day" "So that the sun can forever feast its eyes on my suffering" "This sun's scorching rays" "How they burn my brain with their torturing heat" "Against the stifling heat of this glow" "There is no cool shelter of shade" "Against the terrible agony of this suffering" "What balm could bring me relief?" "The terrible potion" "Which brought this torture upon me" "I myself brewed it" "From my father's distress and my mother's woe" "From love's tears, past and future" "From laughter and weeping Ecstasy and injury" "From all of these I brewed that drink's poison" "What I brewed What flowed through me" "What I enjoyed and drank with delight" "Let it be cursed that dreadful drink" "And a curse upon him who brewed it" "My lord, Tristan What terrible magic" "O love's deceit" "O power of love" "O world's sweetest illusion" "What have you done?" "Here he lies now" "That prodigious man" "Who loved as no other loves" "Now see what toll love has taken on him" "What toll it always takes" "Are you now dead?" "Are you still alive?" "Has the curse carried you off?" "No." "What joy!" "He stirs, he lives" "How gently he moves his lips" "The ship" "Can't you see it yet?" "The ship?" "Surely it will come today" "It can't delay much longer" "With Isolde on it" "How she waves" "How she drinks to sweet atonement for me" "Do you see her?" "Don't you see her yet?" "How happy, noble and gentle" "She travels over the sea's expanse" "On shining waves of beautiful flowers" "She's coming gently carried to the land" "She smiles comfort and sweet repose to me" "She brings me final consolation" "How beautiful you are" "What, Kurwenal?" "Didn't you see her?" "Off to the lookout, you fool" "What I see so plain and clear must not escape you" "Don't you hear me?" "Go quickly to the lookout" "Go to the lookout Are you at your post?" "The ship!" "The ship!" "Isolde's ship" "You must see it You must" "Do you still not see it?" "What joy!" "What delight!" "The ship" "I see it coming from the north" "Didn't I know it?" "Didn't I say it?" "She still lives and still brings me life" "For me the world holds only Isolde" "How could she have left it already?" "See there how bravely it steers" "How strongly the sail billows How it runs!" "How it flies!" "And the flag?" "The flag of joy bright and cheerful at the mast" "Aha!" "Joy!" "In broad daylight Isolde comes to me" " Can you see her there?" " The ship just went behind the rocks" "Behind the reef?" "Is it dangerous?" "The breakers rage there and ships run aground" " Who's guiding the rudder?" " The surest of pilots" "Might he betray me?" "Could he be Melot's ally?" " Trust him as you do me" " Are you also a traitor, you wretch?" "Can you see her again?" "Not yet" "Lost" "Ahoy!" "Look there!" "It is past, safely past" "Kurwenal" "Truest friend" "All I have and hold" "I give to you this day" "They're coming at full speed" "Can you see her at last?" "Can you see Isolde?" "There she is She's waving" "O most blessed of women" "The ship's in port" "Look, Isolde with one jump leaps from deck to shore" "Come down from the lookout idle gawker" "Down, down to the shore Help her!" "Help my lady" "I'll carry her up Trust my arms" "But you, Tristan" "Trust me and stay in bed" "O this sun" "O this day" "O the joy of this sunniest day" "My blood is racing" "My spirits rejoice" "Joy without measure" "A delirium of joy" "How can I bear it confined to this bed?" "Then up and away where hearts are beating" "Tristan the hero rejoicing in his strength" "Has forced himself away from death" "Once with a bleeding wound" "I fought against Morold" "Today with a bleeding wound" "I will capture Isolde" "Ha, my blood flow joyfully now" "She will close my wounds forever" "She is coming like a hero She comes to save me" "Let the world pass away as I rush to her in joy" "Tristan, beloved" "What, do I hear the light?" "The torch" "The torch is put out" "To her, to her" "It's me, it's me" "Sweetest friend" "Get up, just once more" "Hear my call" "Isolde is calling" "Isolde has come" "Faithfully to die with Tristan" "Are you still silent?" "One more hour" "Just one more hour" "Stay awake for me" "Such anxious days" "She waited longingly" "So that for one hour" "She could stay with you" "Has Isolde been cheated?" "Did Tristan cheat her" "Of this one eternally brief" "Final earthly happiness?" "Where are your wounds?" "Let me heal them" "So that, joyful and blessed" "We may share the night" "Don't die from your wounds" "Not from your wounds" "Let us both, united" "Put out the light of life" "His eyes are dimmed" "His heart is still" "Not the slightest stirring of even one breath" "Must she now stand mourning before you" "She who boldly and joyfully crossed the sea to be your bride?" "Too late" "Proud man" "Do you punish me so harshly?" "Have you no compassion for my suffering guilt?" "Are you deaf to my lament?" "Just once more" "Just one more time" "Listen" "He wakes" "Beloved" "Kurwenal, listen A second ship" "Death and damnation!" "Everyone, lend a hand" "I recognize Mark and Melot" "Bring weapons and stones Help me!" "To the gate!" "Mark is behind me with his followers" "Resistance is useless We are outnumbered" "Stay here and help" "As long as I live" "No one shall intrude upon us here" "Isolde, my lady" "Is that Brangaene calling?" "What are you looking for here?" "Don't shut me out, Kurwenal Where is Isolde?" "Are you a traitor as well?" "A curse upon you" "Get back, you fool Don't bar the way" "Aha!" "This is the day we meet!" "Die, disgraceful wretch" "Woe is me, Tristan" "Kurwenal, madman Listen, you are mistaken" "Faithless maid" "Forward!" "Follow me Drive them back" "Stop, lunatic Are you out of your mind?" "Death rages here" "There is nothing else to win here, King" "If that's what you seek, come on" "Get back, madman" "Isolde" "My lady, I bring happiness" "What do I see?" "Are you alive, Isolde?" "Treachery and deception" "Tristan, where are you?" "He lies here" "Here, where I lie" "Alas" "Tristan, true one" "Do not scold me" "If your faithful follower" "Comes with you" "Are all dead then?" "Are all dead?" "Tristan, my hero" "Dearest of friends" "Must you betray your friend today as well?" "Even today when he comes to prove his utmost loyalty?" "Awake!" "Awake!" "Awake to my misery" "You faithless, faithful friend" "She's waking She's alive" "Isolde, listen to me" "Hear of my atonement" "I revealed the secret of the potion to the king" "With eager haste he set out to sea" "To reach you" "To release you" "And to give you to his friend" "Why, Isolde?" "Why this for me?" "When all that I could not previously understand was revealed to me" "How happy I was that my friend was free of guilt" "Then, to wed you to that dear man" "I sped after you with full sails" "But evil misfortune" "Why must he who brings peace encounter these things?" "I have only increased the toll of death" "My delusion increased the agony" "Can't you hear us?" "Isolde, dearest" "Don't you hear your faithful servant?" "How gently and quietly he smiles" "How tenderly he opens his eyes" "Do you see it, friends?" "Don't you see?" "How he shines ever more brightly" "Encircled by stars" "Lifting him up" "Don't you see it?" "How his heart boldly swells" "Full and glorious" "It surges in his breast" "How softly and gently from his lips" "His sweet breath flows" "Look, my friends" "Can't you feel it and see it?" "Do I alone hear this melody" "So wonderful and tender?" "Delightfully lamenting" "All revealing" "Gently pardoning" "Sounding from him" "It flows through me" "And rises up" "Beautifully resounding" "Echoing around me" "Ringing ever more clearly" "Surging all around me" "Are they waves of gentle breezes?" "Are they drafts of sweet fragrance?" "As they surge and wash around me" "Shall I breathe them?" "Shall I listen to them?" "Shall I sip them?" "Or dive beneath them" "And disappear in their sweet scents?" "In the surging swell" "In the ringing sound" "In the world's great breath" "In the flowing all" "To drown" "To sink" "Unconscious" "Highest bliss"