You said: “I’ll find a new land, find another sea—

You said: "I shall go to some other land, I shall go to some other sea.

A new city’ll turn up, a better one than this.

Another city there must be, better than this.

Every effort I make is condemned, turns out amiss,

My every effort here is a sentence of condemnation against me,

While my heart, like a corpse, lies buried deep,

and my heart—like a corpse—lies buried.

And my mind—how long will my mind stay sunk in stagnant sleep?

How long shall my mind remain smothered in this blight?

Here, wherever I look, wherever I turn my gaze

Wherever I turn my eye, wherever I look,

I see the blackened wreck of all my days,

I see the black ruins of my life

So many years spent, ruined, lost by me.”

where I spent and spoiled and ruined so many years."

There are no new places you’ll find, you’ll catch no other tide.

Fresh lands you shall not find, you shall not find other seas.

This city will follow you. The streets you tread

The city shall ever follow you.

Will be the same, it’s in these same houses your head

In streets you shall wander that are the same streets and

Will turn grey, in the same neighborhoods that you’ll age.

grow old in quarters that are the same

Always you’ll end up in this city. Don’t hope to turn the page

and among these very same houses you shall turn grey.

To an Elsewhere for which there’s no ship for you, no road shows clear.

You shall always be returning to the city. Hope not;

Just as you destroyed your life back here

there is no ship to take you to other lands, there is no road.

In this tiny retreat, so you ruined it world-wide.

You have so spoiled your life here in this tiny corner

that you have ruined it in all the world.