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Your speeches go on forever.
    Won’t they ever end?
What’s wrong with you?
    Why do you keep on arguing?
If you and I changed places,
    I could say the same things you are saying.
I could make fine speeches against you.
    I could shake my head at you.
But what I might say would give you hope.
    My words of comfort would help you.

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Will your long-winded speeches never end?(A)
    What ails you that you keep on arguing?(B)
I also could speak like you,
    if you were in my place;
I could make fine speeches against you
    and shake my head(C) at you.
But my mouth would encourage you;
    comfort(D) from my lips would bring you relief.(E)

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