Old signalman,
you who stand still,
tell me why.
Don't you see my love
is running away
and I’m in vainly chasing her?
Stop that train because I’m dying of pain.
Do it, please.
Make it so that I see her again.
Train tracks, sad and lonely,
you who took away with the train of love
my youth.
I still hear the screeching of the brakes,
now I see the train getting further away
with her who’s going away.
Train tracks, cold parallels of life,
for me, it’s over.
(Now that I am alone and abandoned,
everything has changed.
Standing still, I watch that smoke as it’s fading
and it’s breaking my heart.
Old signalman, she left by herself
without a word
that could have saved my heart.)1
I still hear the screeching of the brakes,
now I see the train getting further away
with her who’s going away.
Train tracks, cold parallels of life,
for me, it’s over.
Train tracks, train tracks, train tracks.
1. This part is included in the main video but missing in the video in the submitter’s comments section.