I Must Accept But Can't What Cannot Be

Music: Fugue in F# Major. By Dimitri Shostakovich. Sequenced by J. Marques.

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I must accept but can't what cannot be. I see you and my heart dissolves in pain. You are not dead, but you are dead to me. What happened to our love's a mystery. I rummage through our empty past in vain. I must accept but can't what cannot be: That someone else now shares your off-hand "we," Now feels your tender tongue all feeling drain . . . You are not dead, but you are dead to me. I cannot lay aside my agony: Again, again I play the same refrain. I must accept but can't what cannot be. And yet I know this tortured ecstasy Is just my way of holding you again. You are not dead, but you are dead to me, And still I cannot bear to set you free, That of our love some remnant might remain. I must accept but can't what cannot be. You are not dead, but you are dead to me.