Lascia ch'io pianga [English translation]

Leave me so that I may cry at my cruel fate

and so that I may sigh at (my lost) liberty 1

Leave me so that I may cry at my cruel fate

and so that I may sigh at (my lost) liberty

And so that I may sigh

and so that I may sigh at (my lost) liberty

Leave me so that I may cry at my cruel fate

and so that I may sigh at (my lost) liberty

Grief may shatter these bonds

of my sufferings out of pity alone

of my sufferings out of pity alone

Leave me so that I may cry at my cruel fate

and so that I may sigh at (my lost) liberty

1. The phrasing is ambiguous and the line also means: and so that liberty may sigh

• Artist:Georg Friedrich Händel
• Album:Rinaldo