Veränderung/en
Veränderung (live album “Schöpfe und Sümpfe”) (Audio)
Change (Delta blues)
English translation by Indira, AI assistant. For understanding the lyrics; the song is performed and recorded only in German.
Why, why, why can it not stay the way it was?
Everything was lovely; it was such a good year.
So much laughter, never thinking there would be an end,
and slowly setting off on the road that pushes everything onward.
Away from what seemed certain. Moving into tomorrow, into maybe.
Farewell, kiss kiss, uncertain.
Onward, onward, onward, far. Not ready, yet changing,
everything, always, different, new, while running, rushing, stumbling, capsizing,
away from the harbour, well rested, into the new world,
where yesterday, which seemed so beautiful, counts for nothing at all.
Everything changes just when it is so lovely.
It can, may, should, must go on.
Delta life, give everything, strive for happiness, day by day?
Prospecting and finding, not allowed to stay where the seam lay.
No post is good post. If it costs your life, why does it always go on?
Having been ready to say something, do something and leave something alone,
waiting, falling asleep, waking up and nothing happening,
stopping the bewildered laughter and constantly setting off,
getting stuck in the world where time freezes into lumps.
Again and again like this, again and again like this, again and again so much the same, unmoved.
Delta life, give everything, strive for happiness, day by day.
Prospecting, finding nothing, and having to stay where nothing at all lay.
The letter does not arrive, no green light;
if this must always flow, why does it never change?
Turn off that dim little lamp; reading will not get you anywhere anyway.
Living, living, living, living, same rung, same ladder.
Even if you try not to dream a new dream while asleep,
it still comes down to this: there is no point in rebelling.
Find your routine, the one that moves you forward on the spot.
Do not wait for something new that will fail again.
Delta life, give everything, strive for happiness, day by day.
Prospecting, finding nothing, and having to stay where nothing at all lay.
The letter does not arrive, no green light;
if this must always flow, why does it never change?
