Ich leb' allein auf einer Insel [I Am A Rock] [English translation]

Snow is falling

And I'm looking out of the window

I'm alone

Down there is the street, dark and snowed-under

People go over there, but they are so endlessly far

I live alone on an island

I'm the only one

Who knows my world.

A big sea surrounds it.

Once I had friends

They are strangers to me now

There's no one who still recognizes me today

I live alone on an island

Don't talk about love

For I know it quite well

The word conjures up memories

I don't want to hear it anymore

It touches on so many things

Tormenting me and what I cannot forget

I live alone on an island

And I've got books

And poems that comfort me

There's also music for me

I have no questions

And nobody posing them

I build a world out of my dreams

I live alone on an island

Nobody can see me there

When I'm crying for you.