Surround your heart with steel bars and barbed wire;
And you shall not be pained with the proper attire.

But if you find true love and let it fade;
Sorrow will pain't it's shade.

Alienate your heart from all and it shall never break;
Let it love, but if it's lost it shall forever ache.

But keep the heart from finding love and lonesomeness prevails;
For if you close yourself to all your soul shall never sail.

Entomb your heart in the walls of stone and not let it be touched;
Then never have the feeling that we all long for so much.