Glasgarten [English translation]

Made entirely of glass, cold as ice

Every tree in the glass garden

Spotless like crystal

Every sound in the glass garden

As if sculpted out of water, frozen

Cracked laughter

Elves' voices hurry between the clear flowers

Ice-like branches

Glassy trees

Are they even alive?

They cast no shadows

Only broken images

They fan out the light

In the glass garden, time loses itself

and remains preserved as a moment

(Made entirely of glass and cold as ice is

every tree here in the glass garden)

(Spotless and like crystal is

every sound here in the glass garden)

[Refrain]

Only the moon points the way to the morning

It allows the sun a new day

In the glass garden, the moon kisses the light

(Made entirely of glass, cold as ice)

(Every tree in the glass garden)

(Spotless like crystal)

(Every sound in the glass garden) [x2]

Nothing is fragrant, the fruit is flavorless

Who enjoys it?

(Beautiful...)

In the crystal glass, the light goes astray

The flowers appear brittle and rigid.

To whom should I give this coldness, the expected emptiness? Impossible to pick them

They shatter into thousands upon thousands of fragments,

tiny crystals which sing as they fall,

accompanying the breath of the elves to every ear

that's willing to hear

[Refrain]

And the flowers appear brittle,

quite impossible to pick them

They shatter into crystals

which sing softly as they fall,

and the breaths of gentle elves

that accompany the smallest sound

through the garden made entirely of light

to your ear, if you can then hear it.

[Refrain]

Like everything - clear, smooth, pure [x2]

Made entirely of glass, cold as ice

Every tree in the glass garden

Spotless like crystal

Every sound in the glass garden

• Artist:Goethes Erben
• Album:Nichts bleibt wie es war, 2001 (Zeitbombe/Strange Ways Records) Track 05 of 16