Das bleibt immer ein Geheimnis [English translation]

Just why the old star, the good earth

Must forever revolve through heaven's blue

Yes, that will always be a secret

Nobody knows it quite correctly

Yes, that will always be a secret

Nobody knows it quite correctly

Why does the old man in his garden

Talk to the flowers as to his wife?

Yes, that will always be a secret

Nobody knows it quite correctly

Yes, that will always be a secret

Nobody knows it quite correctly

When we talk about love why do we pretend

There's only love between a man and a woman?

Yes, that will always be a secret

Nobody knows it quite correctly

Yes, that will always be a secret

Nobody knows it quite correctly

Why people can never live together in peace

Without walls, borders, barbed wire

Yes, that will always be a secret

Nobody knows it quite correctly

Yes, that will always be a secret

Nobody knows it quite correctly

Why does killing differ from killing (??)

One makes a show of it when in uniform

Yes, that will always be a secret

Nobody knows it quite correctly

Yes, that will always be a secret

Nobody knows it quite correctly

Every day all of us are in search of the truth

Will we be old and gray when finding it?

Yes, that will always be a secret

Nobody knows it quite correctly

Yes, that will always be a secret

Nobody knows it quite correctly