Weißes Papier [English translation]

I’ll pick up your cat and shake her

till everything drops out

what she ever ate from my hand

later I’ll shake the carpet

and if it’s a hair of my own that I found

I’ll simply pocket it

nothing shall give you bad memories

reveal what I have been to you

now you may think it’s not that bad

but later when it gets really sad

when your past comes down on you heavily

Then it’s rather to be pure as a new piece of paper again.

also I’ll hereafter be different

of the one who you’ve seen as me

a salvation army will get all this mess

and even the trousers you knitted for me

I’ll sit on the floor, eat out of my hands

watch as many cartoons as I can

whatever you hated I’m happy to do

I’ll be simply as pure as a new piece of paper again

I can’t even go to the sea anymore

where the wind longs for your hair

where every wave is your sigh

and every grain of sand is a glance (look) of you

I’d so like to be an astronaut

would fly to stars where nothing is familiar

and spoilt (screwed up) by your touch.

I’ll never be as pure as a new piece of paper again.