Ich bin zu müde, um schlafen zu gehen [English translation]

I'm too tired to go to sleep

I'd like to talk for a little while longer;

You don't have to listen or understand anything

I just have to talk to someone.

I'm too tired to go to sleep,

Who should I recover from?

I know, it's four, you want to go now,

And for a long time you've been trying to hide your yawning

So I've been sitting for years, hating the silence,

Loving the noise, the sleepless night;

Wait for the day with drowned out thoughts,

Meet the early shift of the city,

The city that awakens.

That's how I've lived for years, hating the quiet

Loving the pulse of the urgent night,

Sinking in the light of despondent day,

Waiting for the sun of the night,

My pitch black night.

We can always still be alone

We have never been a couple

We don't know each other, and we don't recognise each other either

In the shadow of the shadows.

• Artist:Hildegard Knef