Wenn der Wodka zweimal klingelt [English translation]

I search for my mind in every bottle

I go as low as the ground

You're poison to my senses

but your poison makes me healthy

Every shirt has its stitch

Every prize has its worth

And the deeper I look in this glass

The faster my heart beats.

People sing about love, they sing about pain

They only ever sing in twos

But these songs are too tame for me

I'm not interest in the names

Nor where they come from

I just know they'll come again

More red wine than the light of the moon

More revue than rendezvous

I linger on your lips,

No one can be silent as beautiful as you

More fleeting than a flower

That withers when it's picked

No, you're not a peacock

You're the feather that adorns it.

And when the apple pleases me

Our idyllic situation will fade away1

When a wolf in the forest

That what's to take my away from the path

Falls into my field of vision

It's hard for me to resist

Lord, please don't let this chalice pass me by!

I search for my mind in every bottle

I go as low as the ground

You're poison to my senses

but your poison makes me healthy

Every shirt has it's stitch

Every prize has it's worth

And the deeper I look in this glass

The faster my heart beats.

1. allusion to Adam and Eve, of course