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From the opera ATON (she is referred to in the German pronunciation in that opera: Baketaton
Her name means "Handmaid of Aten/Aton")
Her song in the temple is represented here by an oboe solo.
Du gehörst zu mir
du gehörst zu mir
bist Wachs in meinen Händen
(You belong to me
You are wax in my hands)
sieh, ich habe ein Heim gebaut
lauter Ziegel
aus Lehm geformt
(See, I have built a home
simple bricks formed from clay)
du gehörst mir
du gehörst mir
(you belong to me)
ich habe ein Heim gebaut
aus lauter Ziegel
verzaubert habe ich sie
die mir zu nahe
(See, I have built a home
purely bricks of clay
I have bewitched them
to make them close to me)
du gehörst mir
(you belong to me)
ich werde dich formen
aus dir etwas machen
(I will mould you
make something out of you)
ich konnte ihn nicht mehr lieben
er wurde mir fremd,
er ging
(I could no longer love him
he became a stranger to me
he went his way)
du musst mir glauben
du gehörst mir
ich werde dich formen
zu einem Ziegelstein
für den Tempel des Aton
(you must believe me
you belong to me
I will mould you
into a brick
for Aten's temple)
gepriesen sei
seine Grösse
seine Liebe
seine Güte
(praise be to his greatness
his love, his goodness)
du musst mir glauben
du gehörst mir
(You must believe me
you belong to me)
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