Du hast die Wahl [English translation]

I wait at the railway/railroad embankment

between the tracks

until a train comes

or a sign of you.

Whether this is extortion

I don't care at all.

You are loved,

you have the option.

(it) May be true

that this is silly somehow

yet nothing's as bleak as a summer alone. (or: lonely summer)

We preclude at noon (instead of the expected: "we conclude")

at the non-swimmer's pool,

and when you don't appear (2nd meaning in german: come up/ cut surface)

I hop in to you.

Whether this is fair

I don't care at all.

You are loved,

you have the option.

(it) May be true

that this is silly somehow

yet nothing's as bleak as a summer alone.

I decoy you into the garden

and pelt flowers at you

as long as yet you topple down*

and capitulate.

Whether this is waste/dissipation

I don't care at all.

who's in love

doesn't have an option.

(it) May be true

that this all once will be embarrasing for me

yet nothing's as divine as a summer in pairs.

* 2nd meaning in German: until you change your mind/ are coaxed)

• Artist:Element of Crime
• Album:Weisses Papier (1993)