Sandmann [English translation]

I am the sand in your eyes,

the dream you dreamed last night.

I sow doubt as well as faith,

get to sleep now, give me the power

over terror and the dreams,

get yourself known to everybody,*

get to sleep now and become mine,

like sand in my hand.

You know that I come at nights,

steal silently into your dream,

pursue you under your blanket,

chase you through Time and Space.

I test your heart and your soul –

Do you withstand my gaze?

Get to sleep now and become mine,

like sand in my hand.

Each grain of sand is a dream,

just a star in the dark of night,

that glitters like a diamond

and is sand all the same –

All is sand in my hand

and is sand all the same –

All is sand

in my hand.

I drink Light and bring

Shadows, Death is my Brother

and my children feed on eyes –

gouged, blood red,

I am a heathen and a demon,

infernally robed.

Get to sleep now and become mine.

like sand in my hand.

White sand yields beautiful dreams,

white sand dispels want,

but black sand gouge

the eyes – black sand brings

Death to you!

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* "mach jeden dir bekannt" -- not sure how to translate this...