When She Is Mute

Although the world would call me free Each day the more her slave am I For in her very way to be There`s I don`t know what I don`t know why Already from the day we met Was my freedom mortal shot She`s but a girl as they, and yet There`s something more, I don`t know what No matter what we speak or do The moments in sweet silence fly For somehow there is music, too When she is mute, I don`t know why So likely to my dying day To follow her will be my lot For in her sweet and candid way There`s I don`t know why I don`t know what