Gustav Mahler - "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" (Rückert) - Fischer-Dieskau

I am now lost to the world
With which I have also lost much time;
So long has it not known anything of me,
That it can now think I am dead!
But I do not care at all
If it believes me dead.
And I cannot even contradict it,
For I am truly dead to the world.
I am dead to the clamor of the world,
And I rest in a quiet place!
I live only in my sky
In my love, in my song.