Wie wird man seinen Schatten los? [Finale] [English translation]

All:

How do you get rid of your shadow?

How do you leave everything behind you?

How do you chase your conscience away?

How do you escape your own self?

How can you flee,

if you are standing in your own way?

How can you be free,

if you cannot escape your own shadow?

Baroness of Walstätten and choir:

If the fight is over

and your way has ended,

you are still only who you are.

Then the only thing that matters

is what is indestructible.

But as long as we live,

it's left to us

to ask ourselves,

day and night:

All:

How do you get rid of your shadow?

Leopold:

One has a goal.

All:

How do you say 'no' to your fate?

Cäcilia:

One survives.

All:

How do you crawl out of your own skin?

Schikaneder:

One plays a game.

All:

How can you become someone else?

Constanze:

Somewhere, someone will dance

All:

Whom should you ask...

Nannerl:

Whom should you ask?

All:

...if you cannot understand yourself?

How can you be free,

if you cannot escape your own shadow?

Colloredo:

How can you be free?

All:

How do you get rid of your shadow?

How do you leave everything behind you?

How do you chase your conscience away?

How do you escape your own self?

How can you flee,

if you are standing in your own?

From your fate

you cannot flee!

Wolfgang (simultaneously):

How can we live

as long as we serve

only fate?

Can we then

Can we then never

Ever

Flee from our own

shadow?

• Artist:Mozart! (Musical)