Besser werden [English translation]

The runner doesn´t run just to get a place on the podium*

and the painter doesn`t paint for the greatest award.

And the swimmer doesn`t swim just to come futher.

No story gets told just to be the greatest.

Does really everything has to become better to be good enough?

Further, faster, higher, so it finally will be enough?

(tell me)** how can you get better, if it is so difficult to be yourself?

Only when you laugh, when you laugh the idea strikes your mind: It couldn`t be better than that.

Trust grows in you without looking at other people,

Your love, it loves without a "because" and a "why".

And all the pictures of us don`t need an altar,

because our fortune*** never asked for a meaning or a reason

And all doubts fall silent.

Does really everything has to become better to be good enough?

Further, faster, higher, so it finally will be enough?

Tell me how can you get better, if it is so difficult to be yourself?

Only when you laugh, when you laugh the idea strikes your mind: It couldn`t be better than that.

Only when you laugh, when you laugh the idea strikes your mind: It couldn`t be better than that.

more listening, more giving

more "we" and more living

more staying, more sharing

showing more heart in the detail

sometimes so less is more

and winning is another game.

Does really everything has to become better to be good enough?

Further, faster, higher, so it finally will be enough?

Tell me how can you get better, if it is so difficult to be yourself?

Only when you laugh, when you laugh the idea strikes your mind: It couldn`t be better than that.

Only when you laugh, when you laugh the idea strikes your mind: It couldn`t be better than that.

• Artist:Yvonne Catterfeld
• Album:Guten Morgen Freiheit (2017)