Auf der Flucht [English translation]

Dogs barking, men calling,

At the market everyone's bellowing

Leave the shoe-they're gonna get ya

The score would just slow you

Left the alley by, right, the main street

blocked, damn it, the wall's too high.

Bailiffs, patrollers, men of the people

For my hideout, one of the small corners

[Refrain:]

On the run!

Of mercy, the king doesn't have a trace

On the run!

A master thief has no face

On the run!

By night like a shadow I stalk

At danger, a true thief will never balk

My breathing is heavy, my heart is racing

The whole land knows of my thievery

From every pinch, I've come out laughing

But today it's my neck the hangman'll cinch

"The beggar-where is he?", I hear voices

Every person in town is after me.

Uncovered, unmasked, it's happened again

Once again, to run I'm forced

[Refrain:]

Doors close with a clack, stones fly with a whiz

The guards follow me on horseback

I see the forest at last, my escape is close

And suddenly my heart beats around an arrow's shaft

I fall to the earth, warm and soft

much too young for a heavenly hearth

Could it be? Angel voices

already calling after me?

[Refrain:]