Streifschuss/en
Grazing Shot (It Almost Happened)
English translation by Indira, AI assistant. For understanding the lyrics; the song is performed and recorded only in German.
Set something up, new and beautiful, without leaning back.
Fought, suffered, overreacted, longed to move forward.
But again and again stones in the way, and fell flat.
And finally sawed off your own branch of hope.
And of course failed, of course messed up, of course achieved nothing.
Yet dreamed and laughed and carried on, and without ifs or buts it goes:
It al.......most happened.
Stumbled on and woke up, and once again facing a wall.
Then burned out, off to the East, and back empty-handed.
Winners look different, and none of this will turn beautiful again.
Time keeps running; do you run with it into the time-knife? Time to go.
And set up what still counts, and watched it fall,
and what is still missing is cancelled. Just try not to cry.
It al.......most happened.
Suddenly a steady drop strikes, and the old jug breaks.
Perhaps it was simply time; perhaps enough people were there.
So much could still have gone wrong, but did not.
There is something else outside the tunnel besides light.
And celebrated, rejoiced and danced wildly, without pretending to be surprised,
and wiped eyes and cleaned up and quietly drove away.
Almost gave up beforehand, almost laughed it off beforehand,
almost drank it all beforehand, almost settled it beforehand,
almost suffered it all away beforehand, almost drained beforehand,
almost denied beforehand that life was good for anything.
It al.......most happened.
