Optimist [English translation]

There are shadows at the walls

One of them belongs to me

Sometimes it looks quite big to me

So that I can’t relate to it

No matter where I move to

Even if the movement is just very small

Even when break through the sound barrier

My shadow outruns me

I know how big I am

(I know) That this image only deforms me

No matter how big my shadow may seem

I am not more or less worthy

I am optimist and nobody can make me feel less

I look through the objective into your hearts

I am optimist and I can be sure that

After every flurry of camera flashes

The quiet comes back sometime

There are pictures attached to the street

They are twice as big as me

On them one can see how I look

But does one see me on them?

How much I may disclose about me

I do not show everything about me

And between me and my picture

You’ll find it hard to distinguish

I am optimist and nobody can make me feel less

I look through the objective into your hearts

I am optimist and I can be sure that

After every flurry of camera flashes

The quiet comes back sometime

There are voices nearly

Tripping over each other while reporting

How they boundlessly overact

With the most colorful stories

It goes from ear to ear

To ear to ear

Isn’t that strange

They act as if they knew me

And indeed better than I know myself