Herzdame [English translation]

Every year was completely wonderful

As far as I can remember

Every day was completely terrible

I still think of that today

I wait for you until four in the morning

You come home and smell

Of other men whom you don't know

With whom you sleep not out of love

Tip tap, tip tap [?], you creep behind me

Tip tap, tip tap, I run away higgledy-piggledy

You squash me, crush me; set me free

For where I am, you are there too

Where are you going? I'm coming with you

I'll follow you at every turn

And another year goes by

I beg you, set me free now

And another year goes by

I'm waiting for you to set me free

I don't want you to be with me

I don't want you to leave me

I wait for the last day

I know well that I like you

Fine if you want to have an argument

But I have no desire to

You are right anyway

What remains is only frustration

You get to me and make me sick1

I should have feelings

Yet when you hiss and scratch and bite

And tear up my love letter

And another year goes by

I beg you, set me free now

And another year goes by

I'm waiting for you to set me free

I don't want you to be with me

I don't want you to leave me

I wait for the last day

I know well that I like you

And another year goes by

I beg you, set me free now

And another year goes by

I'm waiting for you to set me free

I don't want you to be with me

I don't want you to leave me

I wait for the last day

I know well that I like you

And another year goes by

I beg you, set me free now

And another year goes by

I'm waiting for you to set me free

I don't want you to be with me

I don't want you to leave me

I wait for the last day

I know well that I like you

1. "Jmdm auf den Geist gehen" literally means "to go on someone's mind" or thereabouts, so the line that follows is "you go into my stomach"