Ah, what has awoken me?

Ah, what has awoken me?

Is it my sweetheart knocking?

Softly it sounds through the night!

"Go to sleep,

just go to sleep!

It is raindrops knocking at the window-pane."

Why do I hear ringing in my ears?

Is that false girl talking about me,

she who thrust me out of her mind?

"Go to sleep,

just go to sleep!

Cowbells are chiming from the wind."

And she looked at me in the dream,

and she said: You hardly believe

what I suffer, sweet man!

"Go to sleep,

just go to sleep!

Sleep it away - that false dream!"