Hunderttausend Typen wach [English translation]

Forgetting to miss.

But seriously, who is able to do so?

Head in the clouds

and feet in concrete.

What I need..would be a home

or something like happiness.

For both things there is a place: "Back".

We afford stories

which never continue

because we've been in countries

and everything appeared endless to us.

We don't know the direction.

We afford a life

which is to die for*..

Wretched, "drop-dead"- sad**,

fatally ridiculous.

Where to?

And in one hundred thousand beds

behind one hundred thousand walls

one hundred thousand girls are kissing

one hundred thousand guys awake.

And I wouldn't care about it

if you weren't one of them.

Oh, I wouldn't care...

All the movies, all the songs,

they all are about you.

They tell me that it will come out all right.

They don't explain how this will happen.

And just a second right before I accept it,

just a tiny little part ,

that one word abides and remains: "Back"

We afford stories

that continue

when we reached the limit

when everything appeared endless.

We don't know the direction.

We afford a life

which is to die for...

Wretched, deeply saddened,

fatally ridiculous.

Where to?

And in one hundred thousand beds

behind one hundred thousand walls

one hundred thousand girls are kissing

one hundred thousand guys awake.

And I wouldn't care about it

if you weren't one of them.

Oh, I wouldn't care...

And after one hundred thousand dreams

in one hundred thousand long nights,

one hundred thousand doubts keep

one hundred thousand guys awake.

And I wouldn't care about it

if I weren't one of them.

Oh, I wouldn't care...

Oh, I wouldn't care...

*die for: negative meaning, it means "rather die" in this context

**literal translation. Paraphrase: something like "disconsolate".