In Balance [English translation]

I admit, I like excesses

When you 1 go too far, when I don't have time

At the moment I am having not having quite enough sleep 2

Get me a coffee so that I can get going

And then the handstand, upside down, head first

In front of me is a tightrope without a net, but I stand over it

Forwards with a somersault, into difficulties, 3 catch me again

And I stay balanced

Chorus:

Sometimes I'm far too awake, sometimes far too tired

Now and then I fall to the ground, sometimes I go flying 4

Sometimes a bit down, sometimes a bit up 5

But always balanced

My emotions are a balancing act

They swing to and fro

But between tiredness and euphoria,

I don't want to stand, but instead be too quick

And then the handstand, upside down, head first

In front of me is a tightrope without a net, but I stand over it

Forwards with a somersault, into difficulties, 3 catch me again

And I stay balanced

Chorus

Then the handstand, upside down, headfirst

And I stay balanced

Chorus (x2)

1. lit. when one goes too far 2. lit. I am having at the moment a bit too little sleep 3. a. b. imbalanced? 4. to go flying in the more literal sense, as in 'to start to fly' 5. lit. sometimes a bit underneath, sometimes a bit above. I admit I am 100% about the way it is meant