Deuteronomium - How Deep Must We Dig? Lyrics

I drink misery
Happiness I only get to taste
Grief I reap with a scythe
By hands I pick spikes of delight
In sorrow I tramp constantly
Rarely do I get to lay my feet
Onto the soil of joy

My misery is absolute, my sorrow unambiguous
My happiness is dubious, my delight inconstant

Barely any bliss is free from false and vile
I must be poor and live in dearth
To be able to show true gratitude
And to be able to have patience
I must be forlorn and tormented

How deep must we dig
How deep must we dig, and yet
How impure is the gold that we find

Your grace may crowd into the depths of my soul
But it does not make it unsoiled
Your chastisement might burn deep into the core
Yet I won't get rid of what is spoiled

You let the rain fall upon me
It doesn't always melt my harshness
You light your blaze within me
But not always burn away the dross

You heal my wounds, still the scars remain
The scars remain, scars still remain

My misery is absolute, my sorrow unambiguous
My happiness is dubious, my delight inconstant