Seit der Himmel [English translation]

I do nothing but sit behind the house now

In an old deck chair

And smoke is coming out of my mouth

And out of both my nostrils, too

I blow it to where the wind

Is forming a birdhouse out of it

The next winter will come for sure

And then, I want all the birds to be happy, too.

Chorus:

Nothing works for me anymore,

Because everything is turning around you

Since the sky every morning

Is wearing the color of your eyes.

I hear the rustling of every tree,

That moves in front of my sun

And threaten it with getting a saw

If it won't be saying something nice soon

Something like that a single hair of yours

Is stronger than a rope made of hemp

And weighs heavier than twenty beers.

I'd like to prove that if I had one here.

Chorus

I've seen you only yesterday

And I'm going to do it again tomorrow

Until then I just stay here,

Like something that an old dog would deposit at your door

Because it's a small piece of rotten wood,

Which the dog quite liked,

When it was lying in a pile,

That is rising to a green sky next door.

Chorus