Déjeuner en paix [English translation]

I drop the newspaper

on a chair.

Things are bad

all over1.

I wait for her to wake up

and get out of bed at last.

I blow on the embers

to rekindle the fire.

This time

I won't tell her about

the latest mass slaughter,

I'll keep my thoughts

about the world to myself.

She told me that she'd like,

if that's ok with me,

to enjoy a peaceful breakfast.

I step to the window.

Today the morning sky

is neither rosy nor truthful.

But still,

is everything so bad?

is there nothing going well?

"man is an animal"

she says.

She laughs as she

drinks her coffee,

hardly looking at me.

Nothing about human nature

surprises her anymore.

That's why she'd like,

at least if I'm ok with that,

to enjoy a peaceful breakfast.

Yeah, a peaceful breakfast

Oh, a peaceful breakfast.

I look at the newspaper

on the chair.

Things are bad

all around.

"Do you think it will snow?"

she asks suddenly.

"Won't you give me a child for Christmas?"

She laughs as she

drinks her coffee,

hardly looking at me.

Nothing about human nature

surprises her anymore.

That's why she'd like,

at least if I'm ok with that,

to enjoy a peaceful breakfast.

Yeah, a peaceful breakfast

Oh, a peaceful breakfast.

Yeah, a peaceful breakfast

in peace, in peace...

At last, a peaceful breakfast

a peaceful breakfast

At last, a peaceful breakfast

1. "the news are bad, wherever they come from"

• Artist:Stephan Eicher
• Album:Engelberg (1991)