Die Taube [English translation]

You never knew your father

Your mother was like a dove

She flew from branch to branch - Like Noah's spy

In the midst of the floods of human activity

Always on the look out for safe land

Hold me - hold me - hold me oh so tight!

Thus strangers became enemies

How they reached out for the dove

And the dove herself be caught

Hold me - hold me - hold me oh so tight!

With the suitcase standing in the door

A new town in the sunset

A new bed - a new motel

Hold me - hold me - hold me oh so tight!

She never spoke of your father

Only in this one night

As if through lips kissed sore

And with a look of horror on her face

she fell through the door and breathed:

Hold me tight

That town was stranger - That night louder that before

She was alone

Distraught in tears

She hid her face from me

The stranger knocked

And the enemy entered

I saw the outstretched hand

And the dove sick with fear

And I hit out and I hit out

And I hit out with all my strength

And I hit out at bones

And I hit through to the brain

The years have come and gone

I have not seen my mother since that night

A roof over my head - A bed of my own

And I love my wife and I kiss my son

For all the love that now surrounds me

I'll never forget the blood I shed

And the dying man who said to me:

I am back my son

Hold me - hold me!

• Artist:Lacrimosa
• Album:Sehnsucht (2009)