Irgendwann bleib i dann dort [English translation]

Last summer was just beautiful,

I was lying around in some kind of bay

The sun was like fire on your skin,

You smell the water and nothing is loud

Somewhere in Greece,

A ton of white sand

On my back was just your hand

After two or three weeks I began to feel it,

I inhaled the feeling of life there

All my thoughts were turning around

What used to be important now looked so silly

You sit under an olive tree

Playing with a stone

It’s just so different than back home.

And sometime I’m going to stay there

Let everything go and fall down around me

Leaving my home forever more

On this I give you my word,

No matter how many years go by,

Someday I’m going to just stay there.

In our hectic world

It’s all about power and money

Finances and banks get me down

The bill never quite picks itself up

And someday you’ll ask me

Why I am so tormented

And why I am not already far away, God knows where.

But it’s not so far to get there

One more thing to do, says vanity

But before I have a heart attack

Or find myself at forty wearing diapers

I’ll be lying somewhere on the beach,

A bottle of red wine in my hand

And put my feet in the white sand

And sometime I’ll just stay there ...