Home Again [English translation]

[Verse 1: JORIS]

Always wanted to leave,1 could never stay long

When things ran perfectly,2 I began to doubt3

And Home was an unknown place

Is it because of her?4 I drive through empty streets

Think on her, everything else can wait5

And I realise, I like coming back to her6

I unlock the door, once again too late7

She’s already asleep, but a note reads8

[Chorus: JORIS]

Home again

And outside the first snow falls

I lie down beside you9

Home again

You say [that] I should never leave again

I promise I[‘ll] stay here

[Post-Chorus: LOTTE]

Home again

Home again

[Verse 2: LOTTE]

Looking back, I let myself simply drift

Had10 no place for ‘staying together’

And Home lay in a suitcase who-knows-where11

I trade my running away for “always again”

[When] I’m with him, I like myself better12

And I realise, I like coming back to him

I don’t want to leave13

Don’t recognise myself anymore

[Chorus: LOTTE & JORIS]

Home again

And outside the first snow falls

I lie down beside you

Home again

You say [that] I should never leave again

I promise I[‘ll] stay here

[Post-Chorus: LOTTE]

Home again

Home again

[Bridge: JORIS, LOTTE & JORIS & LOTTE]

When the snow no longer14 falls

Will it be you that holds me then?15

When the snow no longer falls

Say that you’ll hold me even then16

When the snow no longer falls

Will it be you that holds me then?

When the snow no longer falls

Say that you’ll hold me even then

[Chorus: LOTTE & JORIS]

Home again

And outside the first snow falls

I lie down beside you

Home again

You say [that] I should never leave again

I promise I[‘ll] stay here

[Post-Chorus: LOTTE]

Home again

Home again

[Outro: LOTTE & JORIS]

I promise I[‘ll] stay here

1. literally “wanted always away”2. literally “ran it perfect”3. ie; to have doubts4. literally “[does] it lie on her?”5. literally “the whole rest should wait”6. literally “I come happily back to her” ie; “I’m happy to come back to her”7. literally “again much too late”8. literally “but on a piece of paper stands”9. literally “I lie myself to you”10. literally “gave” as in “es gibt”=“there is”11. literally “somewhere/anywhere”12. ie; “I like myself better when I’m with him”13. literally “I don’t want [to go] away”14. literally “no more”15. literally “is it you who holds me then?”16. literally “that you’ll hold me regardless/anyway/despite that”