Lyrics: Richard Wagner/Andrew Porter
Music: Richard Wagner
He storms away!
And I sit here,
my former cares
joined by a new one.
I’m helpless, caught in my trap!
Now what can I say?
And when he returns
then how can I lead him
to Fafner’s lair?
I can’t forge these pieces
of obstinate steel!
For no fire of mine
can ever fuse them;
nor can Mime’s hammer
conquer their hardness.
This Nibelung hate,
toil and sweat,
cannot make Notung new,
can’t forge the sword once again!