Astronaut [English translation]

I lift off, nothing holds me to the ground

Everything is pale and grey

I haven't flown for too long

Like an Astronaut

We run around fed up, our minds are blank, (lit. 'with muzzles full', our heads are empty')

Sitting in garbage up to our necks, having holes in our hearts

Drowning worries and problems in a glass full of wine

With smiles of stone, it seems no better to us

We've forgotten by tomorrow who we were until yesterday,

We've all eaten ourselves full, and forget to pay ("und vergessen zu zah'n")

Leaving everything in place for more ashes and dust,

We want everything in order, but don't take care of anything,

The voice of reason has been silenced, we hear it no more,

Because we sometimes get the feeling we don't belong here anymore,

There's no more forward or back, only above and below

One in a hundred million, a small point above the ground,

I lift off

I lift off, nothing holds me to the ground

Everything is pale and grey

I haven't flown for too long

Like an Astronaut

I see the world from above

The rest pales in the grey

I've lost time and space up here

Like an astronaut

In the dark of the night, everything's so peaceful up here, but down below it goes off,

We all help out, but break under the load,

We hope for God, but missed the miracle,

We build ever higher until we reach infinity,

Almost 8 billion humans, but the humanity is missing,

From up here suddenly none of that matters at all,

From here you can't see borders or the color of skin,

All the noise is silenced, I can't hear you anymore,

For a long time I've felt that I belong up here,

There's no more forward or back, only above and below,

One in a hundred million, a small point above the ground,

I lift off

I lift off, nothing holds me to the ground

Everything is pale and grey

I haven't flown for too long

Like an Astronaut

I see the world from above

The rest pales in the grey

I've lost time and space up here

Like an astronaut

And at the sight of this beauty, everything strikes me again,

Are we not really here to love and to live?

I would love to stay here forever, but I'm only a blink of an eye,

that after 5 million years will no longer exist

I lift off, nothing holds me to the ground

Everything is pale and grey

I haven't flown for too long

Like an Astronaut

I see the world from above

The rest pales in the grey

I've lost time and space up here

Like an astronaut