Wenn mir die Worte fehlen [English translation]

[First verse]

I'm driving through the streets

Like a small raft at sea

I only hear white murmur

I only hear this noise

Words are like waves

Tumbling over me

Is somebody out there

Who can understand me?

Who can understand me?

[Refrain]

Listen to me when I'm silent!

Have a closer look

Listen to me when I'm showing you

Who I really am

Listen to me when I'm silent

I've got a lot to tell

And at times talking is easier

When I'm in want of … [When words ...

When I'm in want of words [When words fail me]

[Second verse]

Dense heads, empty phrases

Each one talks in principle

A thousand phrases, telling you

There there is nothing to say

Words are like walls

Who admit nobody

Feeling doesn't know any language

It understands only itself

It understands only itself

[Refrain]

Listen to me when I'm silent!

Have a closer look

Listen to me when I'm showing you

Who I really am

Listen to me when I'm silent

I've got a lot to tell

And at times talking is easier

When I'm in want of … [When words ...]

[Bridge]

For why so often it is that one doesn't express

That what it's all about?

And so very often that what is between the lines

Is what really counts*

[Refrain

Listen to me when I'm silent!

Have a closer look

Listen to me when I'm showing you

Who I really am

Listen to me when I'm silent

I've got a lot to tell

And at times talking is easier

When I'm in want of words [When words fail me]

When I'm in want of words [When words fail me]