Reich und Schön [English translation]

They say, every man is the architect of his own fortune,

but maybe i don't deserve luck.

They ask me why i don't make lovesongs,

look in my eyes, can you see the hate?

I was 19 and my life was full of fucking up, arcades and building joints.

Ridiculous crap, ridiculous i know, goddamnit what a ridiculous time.

A boy without perspective, who walks through the street,

his head filled up with nothing but street-stuff.

'Til I saw you and your eyes (Elhamdullillah), a dream comes true,

but maybe it's just to much, that you can love a boy like me.

I'm a boy from the streets.

I own nothing, I wanna be honest with you, because you are important to me.

You took my hand the first time.

In 19 years I swam towards the coast,

tell me where have you been all the years,

because I became invincible when you took me in your arms

Rich and beautiful? No, I ain't. I'm the wrong person if that's important to you.

I only got my heart and my honesty and I'm sorry, because I can't give you more.

With you at my side, a dream came true.

Every friend of mine said we are a match made in heaven.

I don't have to booze the night away,

because lovers aren't going to the disco.

You took all the hate and the anger from me,

I think fortune finally means well to me.

You aren't a human being, I would know that,

you have to be an angel, that's why you're protecting me.

All your girlfriends laughed at you,

you didn't care, you didn't mind.

They said it looks strange,

a guttersnipe with a girl coming from a good family,

but i will make it up to you,

every kiss, so that you don't have to be ashamed for me.

I know, I got the last job for only 10 days,

but you didn't see how much it embarassed me.

Please trust in me, I will show it to everybody.

Don't let them talk you into something,

please keep me in your life,

rich and beautiful, no that's not me, but I was king in my fantasy.

Rich and beautiful? No, I ain't. I'm the wrong person if that's important to you.

I only got my heart and my honesty and I'm sorry, because I can't give you more.

Please don't say to me, it lost it's appeal.

Look at you, you can't take the pressure and you are asking, if I was all worth it, because you are in trouble in your world because of us.

You think your father could be right and your future with me could turn out to be bad.

You need a man, who is already down to earth and not like me who is dreaming his life.

Who drives a Mercedes and owns a nice house, you will not abstain from it, just like your eyesight.

I can understand, because u love gloss and glamour,

in your world i'm only a sick bummer.

They laugh about me, say guttersnipe to me and you laughed with them, about the guttersnipe.

About the boy who called your name at night below your window.

Forget about this guttersnipe, I'm out where someone appreciates me.

Where no one looks at me, like I'm from the Enterprise

and your love was all a big joke which made me a boy without a heart.

Rich and beautiful? No, I ain't. I'm the wrong person if that's important to you.

I only got my heart and my honesty and I'm sorry, because I can't give you more.