Lorenzo:
Why;  why?
I never gave hope up,
But the ways of the world frighten me now.
Mankind is heading for ruin.
For you I exercised restraint;
My life I gave you.
For you I gave up all desires
to be with a woman.
The faith was with me;
Now I do not feel it in me.
The hate, which I have seen here,
I condemn so much.
You were always my comfort,
I was in your power,
Yet I believed myself worthy.
I end as a poor man,
who can believe no more.

Why; why ?
I saw the glory of love and
recognised it too late; now only death is left.
Mankind is heading for ruin.
For you I forgave much;
The Good was my goal.
For you I took confessions,
But mine was not easy.
It is not as before,
The load becomes too heavy for me.
I call, but you are deaf –
What I believe, disintegrates to dust.
Oh God, is it too late?
Don't you hear my prayer?
I am human like others -
Before you, my God, I kneel,
abandoned like never before.
When I think back,
I was a proud Christian
You were my total happiness;
I miss nothing.
Now the poison triumphs, in me
That it has siezed my love.
The Bibles’ true meaning
fades in my heart.
Oh God, I beg you listen
to one who here so laments.
Before you stands a man,
to you in this madness says
that he abandons hope.

Why; tell me why ...
Why ?

Nurse:
Did I know you to be so cruel?

Lorenzo:
Say why?

Nurse:
Leave him alone in his pain.

Lorenzo/Nurse:
How can you be so cruel,
leaving me alone in my pain.
Why, tell me why?

Lorenzo:
Why, why ?
Had you in all your glory
always intended that only death would be left?
Why, Tell me why?
Why?