Ich liebe Dich [English translation]

I've filled countless pages,

I've made up stories,

I'm not stuck for any answer,

I've mimed the thinker and the clown.

I've oozed out my wisdom

And some stupidity as well, it seems.

I've talked as if it were for my life

And yet I've only meant one thing all along:

I love you

I need you

Trust in you

I rely on you

Wouldn't want to live without you

I love you

I've tried to speak in ever new images

But now I'm running out of time.

I can't beat around seven bushes anymore,

I'll say it---simple and straightforward.

I'll say it simply, and I write

Upon your mirror, on the bench,

On the foggy window,

Which I invented so many detours to say:

I love you

I need you

Trust in you

I rely on you

Wouldn't want to live without you

I love you

Sometimes, in my thoughts, I see the two of us

Standing on a desolate station platform.

Invisible bounds between us

And one of us stays, one has to go.

Loudspeaker voices and doors are slamming

And waving from the leaving train.

I want to say it ever and ever again

And yet I never tell you often enough:

I love you

I need you

Trust in you

I rely on you

Wouldn't want to live without you

I love you