Keine ruhige Minute [English translation]

What have I been doing in all those years

Before you were there?

When a day still was a day,

How have I been spending my time?

Without having to repair toys,

Without going through those moments of shock that eat up my nerves?

Without crawling through the house

Playing horse for you riding on my back?

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There is not a single quiet minute

Left for me now

And that'll go on, as I suppose,

Until I'm a hundred years old.

You fill up my life in such a way

That I can't remember

What was life like before you came.

I used to think I've seen it all

Until you came and tought me different.

I never thought I'm missing out something

Until the day you came into my life

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The house hadn't come to life

Before your brawl was in the air

Now doors are slammed and halls are trembling

And somebody sings the song of the lantern1

Before me old philanderer used to

Change the arrangement of the furniture all the time

Without being aware that

A house doesn't become a home

Before there's a cradle in it.

[Chorus]

I have been going through ups and downs with you

Many sorrows but quite as much joy I've seen

And I know, that was only a slight prelude

To the things that are to come

Because you come and give alll aspects

A whole brand-new dimension

And whatever the years may bring,

I will measure on you, little being.

[Chorus]

1. German nursery rhyme