Elisabeth Soundtrack
Miscellaneous
If only I were your mirror
RUDOLF
How many times have I
Prayed that you would speak to me.
How I hoped
/>that you suddenly broke your silence.
Your great fear,
that I am too much like you,
makes you numb,
makes everything purposeless.
' It's as if the world is collapsing.
If only I were your mirror.
If only you could see yourself reflected in me.
Then it wasn't so difficult for you to understand what I didn't say.
But you ignore me,
because you recognize yourself in me.
You pulls me in and pushes me away inexorably.
I look at you,
your gaze immediately wanders away again.
We are estranged
and yet so intensely related.
I give a sign,
I want to speak to you.
An invisible wall rises.
If only I were your mirror.
You could see yourself reflected in me.
Then it wasn't so difficult for you to understand what I didn't say.
ELISABETH
What are you doing here, with me?
What are you looking for? here?
RUDOLF
Mother, I need you.
I come in fear and need.
Life has hurt me badly.
And it danger is great.
that the world will soon dishonor me.
I only honestly confess to my mother
why it is going.
I no longer see a way out
ELISABETH
I don't want to hear about this.
RUDOLF
Court intrigues are killing me.
My body hurts me
ELISABETH
Don't disturb me anymore .
RUDOLF
And now this horrible
scandal.
Only if you now
appease the Emperor,
it will not be too Late.
ELISABETH
The Emperor belongs to the past.
I have cut all ties.
I never ask anything.
And I don't do it either for you.
RUDOLF
So you're abandoning me?