5000 Meilen von zu Haus' [English translation]

5000 Miles away from Home

Already when I was a boy

I knew for myself

Just to stay in one place, I couldn't take

I read books, day and night

And then I thought

I would be 5000 miles away from home

Oh, if it would be just today

Somewhere, infenitly away

Could, I be 5000 miles far away from home

And when I was sixteen

I went on my first big trip

Everywhere the world looked wonderful

And at once I found

This life is ideal

I was 5000 miles away from home

Now I have seen so much

Where could I even go now?

I am lonely and alone, day by day

Because with every, step and tread

Pulls me the homesickness

I am 5000 miles away from home

And I wish for, myself that today I would

not be so far, so infinitely far away

Wouldn't be 5000 miles away from home

Wouldn't be 5000 miles away from home

Wouldn't be 5000 miles away from home