Budapest [English translation]

When I first saw it I didn’t know what was waiting for me.

Then, soaked in fear, I ran on on its surface.

I’ve seen either side of it,

I’ve walked either bank of it,

but really, I’m not OK being here,

wherever else can I go now?

It was a dream, now transformed into mist, this is Budapest, Budapest.

A landscape transformed from a dream into mist.

It gave me air to breathe but now it’s suffocating me, this is Budapest, Budapest.

Extinguished star factory now glowing black.

Although it’s a new century now, I still feel the same pain

and the same time’s passing that used to be anyone’s fair share.

I’ve seen either side of it,

I’ve walked either bank of it,

but really, I’m not OK being here,

wherever else can I go now?

It was a dream, now transformed into mist, this is Budapest, Budapest.

A landscape transformed from a dream into mist.

It gave me air to breathe but now it’s suffocating me, this is Budapest, Budapest.

Extinguished star factory now glowing black.