Alt wie ein Stein [English translation]

Old as a rock

Old as a rock

There's 24 hours in a day

Every child knows that today

These are minutes and seconds

That are in big boxes

The month was given to us by the moon

In terms of years one thinks much better.

Old as a rock

Enjoy what has passed,

Surviving the years.

Old as a rock -

The years that have gone by,

Welcome each new day.

But the truth is revolting

Reality looks different

From a boulder, as I am,

Only little remains, I melt away

Not as fast as ice cream (melts) in the sunshine;

What stays of me is barely anything

A grain in the hourglass of this life

Turns around -

and looks for me to no avail

Old as a rock

That is what everyone wants to be,

Surviving the years.

Old as a rock -

The years that have gone by,

Welcome each new day.

But the truth is revolting

Reality looks different

But the years have gone by so fast,

Thats why they have started

To stack them [the years] on the shelves.

Then decades lie there

and hundreds of years.

Old as a rock

Old as a rock

Old as a rock

That is what everyone wants to be,

Surviving the years.

Old as a rock -

The years that have gone by,

Welcome each new day.

But the truth is revolting

Reality looks different

What stays of me is barely anything

I don't want to be a rock again

I don't want to be a rock again

• Artist:Peter Maffay
• Album:Tabaluga und die Zeichen der Zeit