Hinter der Elbe New York [English translation]

Something's happening at every corner, People are standing in lines in front of the clubs

Are cooling their heels, for a little bit od bad air

Soon twilight will arrive and some will go home

While others are cleaning the streets, cleaning of the rest

I'm still flying around with a few lonely souls

And my angular heart has gone sore long ago

I used to loved that, those witching hours with you

But alone, just by myself, all those streets and faces seem

Like just an empty piece of paper

The two of us used to be a metropolis

And now we're just a village

Our love reached behind the Elbe

And was as huge as New York

We were like the city that never sleeps

With it's thousand lights

Gigantic but never alone

The two of us used to be a metropolis

And now we're just a village

The tourists are streaming in, like the insects in summer

I'm driving to the lake at the outskirts

Where the two of us used to hide

Our favorite pub is full, the Happy Hour unbearable

I don't know what to do with myself...I don't know what to do with myself...

I don't know what to do with myself...I don't know what to do with myself...

The two of us used to be a metropolis

And now we're just a village

Our love reached behind the Elbe

And was as huge as New York

We were like the city that never sleeps

With it's thousand lights

Gigantic but never alone

With it's big history, describing the people

With the jetsam of souls, floating around in the water

With the child, that doesn't sleep, with the drinking father

But only when evening brings the darkness

With the cabs of hope, driving to the airport

Where the people forget to pay their bills

The air is stuffy and thick, but I'm breathing it in

This way I can free a part of my soul

The two of us used to be a metropolis

And now we're just a village

We were like the city that never sleeps

With it's thousand lights

Gigantic but never alone

The two of us used to be a metropolis

And now we're just a village