Erste Liebe [English translation]

She was my first love

We went to the same school

Where all the boys wrote letters to her

But she always played the cool one

We stole gum from the vending machines ¹

She was so pretty that it already hurt

And I still know today, exactly

How she looked back then

We were a part of the same clique

Summer evenings at the lake

We exchanged shy glimpses

In the stereotyped sunsets

I thought it would never end,

On every single night

I thought about her

She was my first love

And she will always be

For an entire summer

We wrote the story of us two

And I cannot forget her

Even when the years go by

I just need to think of those days

And I can see her back in front of me

We moved to different cities

Just as life has run its course

She saw Tom and I, Annette

Neither of those two lasted long

Now and then friends told us

What she did and how she was

And only when I daydreamed

It was clear that I still clung to her

And how she smiled at me then

When we met on the train

I just wanted to go to Muenster

And rode to Hamburg with her

We moved around half the night

And sometime she said

She had often thought of me ²

She was my first love

And she will always be

The whole night long

We wrote the story of us two

And I cannot forget her

Even when the years go by

I just need to think of those days

And I can see her back in front of me

I can see her back in front of me

I can see her back in front of me

Sometime we said “good bye”

And not “I’ll see you again”

Perhaps we would just be two strangers

If we would see each other again today

We both found our happiness

We’re no longer the ones we once were

Time going by doesn’t come back

She was my first love

And she will always be

I ask myself if she also thinks

About the story of us two now and then

And then I stand there and smile

Even when the years go by

I just need to think about that time

And I can see her back in front of me

I can see her back in front of me

I can see her back in front of me

She was my first love

And she will always be